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A Gardeners Forum Forums Gardening Reference Gardening in 2007 Armstrong mystery #19 ~ Malvaviscus arboreus "Mexican turk's cap"

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Armstrong mystery #19 ~ Malvaviscus arboreus "Mexican turk's cap" #84212 October 29th, 2006 at 10:37 PM
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Re: Armstrong mystery #19 ~ Malvaviscus arboreus "Mexican turk's cap" #84213 October 29th, 2006 at 11:53 PM
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digital flower Member D Joined: Aug 2006 CT USA	I think it is Flowering Maple (Abutilon). That looks like quite a garden tour you went on.

Re: Armstrong mystery #19 ~ Malvaviscus arboreus "Mexican turk's cap" #84214 October 30th, 2006 at 12:45 AM
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weezie13 Compost Queen! Joined: Apr 2003 N.Y.	Jiffy, Have you taken this plant picture twice?? Cause I guessed the same thing in another post/picture....

Re: Armstrong mystery #19 ~ Malvaviscus arboreus "Mexican turk's cap" #84215 October 30th, 2006 at 01:17 AM
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zuzu's petals Member Joined: Aug 2005 coastal n.c.	I think it's Malvaviscus arboreus, "Turk's Cap" Hibiscus.

Re: Armstrong mystery #19 ~ Malvaviscus arboreus "Mexican turk's cap" #84216 October 30th, 2006 at 01:27 AM
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weezie13 Compost Queen! Joined: Apr 2003 N.Y.	Yep, I looked it up, to what "THE ZUZU PETALS " said... Looks just like it...

Re: Armstrong mystery #19 ~ Malvaviscus arboreus "Mexican turk's cap" #84217 October 30th, 2006 at 05:32 AM
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Anonymous Unregistered A	i don't think so. this plant was very different than the other. the flowers' habit was different, more open and upright than the turks cap (which i do think is correct for #17!)

Re: Armstrong mystery #19 ~ Malvaviscus arboreus "Mexican turk's cap" #84218 October 30th, 2006 at 06:16 AM
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zuzu's petals Member Joined: Aug 2005 coastal n.c.	I stand by Malvaviscus arboreus for this one, and I still say that #17 is Malvaviscus penduliflorus M. arboreus is an upright form, and M. penduliflorus (as the name sort of implies) has the pendulous flowers.

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Re: Armstrong mystery #19 ~ Malvaviscus arboreus "Mexican turk's cap" #84219 October 30th, 2006 at 06:32 AM
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Anonymous Unregistered A	ok zuzu, you have a very good eye! this one is m. arboreus and the other one is m.penduliflorus. thanks for your help and see weezie i didn't take the same pic twice!

Re: Armstrong mystery #19 ~ Malvaviscus arboreus "Mexican turk's cap" #84220 October 30th, 2006 at 06:43 AM
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zuzu's petals Member Joined: Aug 2005 coastal n.c.	Those sneaky plants, they're always trying to keep us all confused and be-fuzzled.

Re: Armstrong mystery #19 ~ Malvaviscus arboreus "Mexican turk's cap" #84221 October 30th, 2006 at 06:46 AM
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Anonymous Unregistered A	i agree! the give away for me was a google image of the fruits of this one. i tried to get a pic of them, but it didn't work, however, the google image had a perfect pic to match what i saw! thanks again!

Re: Armstrong mystery #19 ~ Malvaviscus arboreus "Mexican turk's cap" #84222 October 30th, 2006 at 06:56 AM
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weezie13 Compost Queen! Joined: Apr 2003 N.Y.	</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="COMIC SANS MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="3" face="COMIC SANS MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Jiffymouse: <strong> thanks for your help and see weezie

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