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Hibiscus mutabilis L.
Synonym
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Abelmoschus mutabilis
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Family
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Malvaceae
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Local name
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English - Cotton Rose
Malayalam - Chinappratti
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Flowering and fruiting period
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September-December
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Distribution
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Native of China
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Distribution in Kerala
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All Districts
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Habitat
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Cultivated as ornamental
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Uses
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Cultivated as ornamental. With the flowers, they are
applied to burns, swellings and other skin problems.
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Key Botanical Characters:
Bushy shrub or
small tree, 5-7 m high; younger parts dense with stellate or simple glandular
hairs. Leaves suborbicular, cordate, Flowers axillary, solitary or in
terminal subcorymbose racemes. Epicalyx lobes 8-12, linear-lanceolate, bent
down, eventually spreading. Calyx lobes connate to middle, ovate-lanceolate,
acuminate, accrescent, densely stellate-pubescent with
glandular hairs throughout above, densely stellate-hairy at margin inside and
with long simple hairs in middle and base, 5-nerved, yellowish green. Corolla white fading pink. Petals 5 or multiples of 5, suborbicular,
short-clawed, sparsely stellate-hairy outside, and glabrous
inside. Ovary globose, truncate, ca 6 mm, white-silky-hairy, 5-loculed;
ovules many in each locule. Capsules subglobose, emarginate, densely covered with stellate, simple glandular and long setose hairs. Seeds
reniform, withhairs, brownish.
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