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Credits

Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Hibiscus' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/hibiscus/). Accessed 2026-05-07.

Family

  • Malvaceae

Glossary

capsule
Dry dehiscent fruit; formed from syncarpous ovary.
family
A group of genera more closely related to each other than to genera in other families. Names of families are identified by the suffix ‘-aceae’ (e.g. Myrtaceae) with a few traditional exceptions (e.g. Leguminosae).
ovary
Lowest part of the carpel containing the ovules; later developing into the fruit.

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Credits

Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Hibiscus' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/hibiscus/). Accessed 2026-05-07.

Hibiscus

Hibiscus syriacus at Arboretum Het Leen Eeklo, Belgium (4 September 2004). Image © Jan De Langhe.

A genus of some 200 species of trees, shrubs, and herbs, inhabitants mainly of the tropics and subtropics. It belongs to a group of the Mallow family in which the carpels of the ovary are completely united and the fruit a capsule.

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