Hibiscus tilliaceus L.

Shrub or tree 2-13 m high, evergreen, the branchlets minutely stellate-tomen-tellous to stellate-puberulus. Leaves rather long-petiolate, the petiole terete, up to 14.5 cm long, minutely stellate-tomentellous to stellate-puberulus, the stipules large, oblong-ovate, semiamplexicaul, acute, stellate-tomentellous, early caducous and leaving a conspicuous annular scar around the branches; blade circular or nearly so, deeply cordate at the base, usually abruptly short-acuminate at the apex, generally entire or sometimes minutely crenulate at the margin, up to 19 cm long and 18.5 cm wide, coriaceous, strongly discolor, 7-to 9(-11)-palminerved, the upper surface green when fresh, brown when dry and glabrescent, the lower surface grayish-stellate-tomentellous, with prominent venation and commonly with an elongate open gland-at the base of the median vein or of the 3 central veins. Flow-ers axillary, solitary or in few-flowered clusters at the end of the branchlets, the pedicel short, stout, 0.5-1.8 cm long, stellate-tomentellous; epicalyx cupuliform, irregularly 8-to 11-lobed, 1.4-2 cm long, stellate-tomentellous, the lobes acute, 0.5-1.5 cm long; calyx cupuliform, lobed to below the middle, 2.2-3 cm long, stel-late-tomentellous, the lobes narrowly ovate, acute, 1.3-2.2. cm long, 3-nerved; petals obovate to broadly obovate, cuneiform at the base, rounded at the apex, (4-) 5-8 cm long, bright yellow or sometimes orange, fading greenish or reddish, often blackish when dry; staminal tube up to 3.7 cm long, antheriferous throughout, the filaments ca 0.6-0.7 cm long; style ca 1 cm longer than the staminal tube, the branches ca 0.5 cm long, the stigmas densely fimbrillate. Capsule surrounded by the persistent epicalyx and calyx, ovoid or subglobose, apiculate, 1.5-3.5 cm in diam, the valves stellate-tomentellous; seeds reniform, ca 4-4.5 mm long, minutely papillate.

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.