Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Malvales > Malvaceae > Hibiscus > Hibiscus rosa-sinensisHibiscus rosa-sinensis (chinese hibiscus; shoebackplant)Synonyms: Abelmoschus genevii; Hibiscus androphoro-petaloides; Hibiscus arnottii (homotypic); Hibiscus cooperi; Hibiscus festalis; Hibiscus festivalis; Hibiscus fulgens (homotypic); Hibiscus javanicus (heterotypic); Hibiscus liliiflorus (heterotypic); Hibiscus metallicus; Hibiscus rosa-sinensis var. carnea-plenus; Hibiscus rosa-sinensis var. floreplena; Hibiscus rosa-sinensis var. genuinus; Hibiscus rosa-sinensis var. plur; Hibiscus rosa-sinensis var. rosa-sinensis; Hibiscus rosa-sinensis var. rubro-plenus; Hibiscus rosiflorus; Hibiscus rosiflorus var. simplex; Hibiscus storckii; Hibiscus tricolor; Malvaviscus fragilis (homotypic); Malvaviscus puniceus (homotypic) Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, known colloquially as Chinese hibiscus, China rose, Hawaiian hibiscus, and shoeblackplant, is a species of tropical hibiscus, a flowering plant in the Hibisceae tribe of the family Malvaceae, native to East Asia. |
| Allergen Potential [1] | Medium-Low |  | | Edible [2] | May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details. | | Flower Type [2] | Hermaphrodite | | Leaf Type [2] | Evergreen | | Lifespan [3] | Perennial | | Pollinators [2] | Insects, Lepidoptera | | Structure [2] | Shrub | | Usage [2] | The juice from the petals is used in China as shoe-blacking and mascara; A dye is made from the petals;
A good quality fibre is obtained from the stems; In warm sub-tropical areas the fibres can be up to 3 metres long, but in Britain they are likely to be much shorter. The fibre is used for coarse fabrics, nets and paper;
Plants are often used for hedges and screens, though since they are not very cold hardy they are not suitable for this use in Britain; | | | Height [2] | 8.2 feet (2.5 m) | | Width [2] | 8.2 feet (2.5 m) |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000) ♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License♦ 3USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture ♦ 4HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández ♦ 5Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009 ♦ 6del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ♦ 7Notes on Feeding and Breeding Habits of the Purple Sunbird Nectarinia asiatica (Cinnyris asiaticus) in Bandar Abbas, Hormozgan, Southern Iran, TAHER GHADIRIAN, ALI T. QASHQAEI & MOHSEN DADRAS, Podoces, 2007, 2(2): 122–126 ♦ 8New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ database♦ 9{Structural and Taxonomic Components of Habitat Selection in the Neotropical Folivore Lamponius portoricensis (Phasmatodea: Phasmatidae), Michael R. Willig, Elizabeth A. Sandlin and Michael R. Gannon, Environmental Entomology Vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 634-641 (June 1993)♦ 10Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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