| Cut-Petal Hibiscus |
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| File size | 649001 |
| Original date | 5/1/05 6:28 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash fired, auto |
| Focal length | 11.7mm |
| Exposure time | 1/60s |
| Aperture | 4.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Partial |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | E3700 |
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Botanical name: Hibiscus schizopetalus Family: Malvaceae (mallow family)
Cut-Petal Hibiscus is a hairless, 2-4 m tall shrub with spreading or
usually drooping branches, and flowers which hang upside down, with
lace-like cut petals. Petals are 4-6 cm long, 2-3 cm broad, pinkish,
with pink or red streaks, graceful lace-like recurved. Staminal column is
8-10 cm long. Sepal-cup is tubular, 1-1.5 cm long, irregularly 2-5 lobed.
Flowers arise in leaf-axils, solitary, drooping, on flower-stalks 8-15
cm long, jointed nearly in the middle; false sepals are 5-8, very short,
1-2 mm long. Leaves are 2-7 cm long, 1-5 cm broad, elliptic,
sharply sawtoothed, entire below; leaf-stalk short, 0.5-2 cm long.
Capsule 3-4 cm long, 1 cm across, oblong, cylindric. Cut-Petal Hibiscus is
native to Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique.
| Identification credit: Rita Singh | Photographed in cultivation. |
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