Re: RE: Fringed hibiscus

Cathy, I'm not sure they are endemic to China. They are known as Chinese Lantern but I'm not sure that is their origin. It is fairly well acknowledged that it did play a part in the original hybridization of the what we now know of as tropical Hibiscus. As far as misleading names my tropical Hibiscus is known as rosa sinensis or the Rose of China even though they were probably native to India or the islands in the Indian ocean. Your fringed Hibiscus are ubiquitous in Hawaii.

DF
----- Original Message ----- From: "cathy carpenter" <cathyc@rnet.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 12:52 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] RE: Fringed hibiscus


From your description of their cultural requirements, I am curious what part of that huge country (China) they are from.
Do you know?
Cathy
On Thursday, September 23, 2004, at 08:22 PM, David Franzman wrote:

Hi Andrea

I'm back from getting my daughter out of the hospital once again. She has
spent one month out of three in the hospital this summer.

Now on to the Hibiscus that you call Fringed. The botanical name is (I'm
going to misspell this) schzopetalus or Chinese lantern. I had 30 of these
plants but their frenquency of blooming and the delicateness of the flowers
made transporting them and showing difficult. They also need huge
quantities of water and plenty of shade here. Demur is how I would put
their flowers.

DF

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrea H" <hodgesaa@earthlink.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 4:51 PM
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Well Poop. David, are you out there? Someone needs to send you some
cuttings
to grow!

Andrea H
Beaufort, SC


----- Original Message -----
From: "james singer" <jsinger@igc.org>
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Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 4:45 AM
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Don't know, Andrea. The one I photographed is at Selby Botanical
Garden. "Plant Finder" doesn't list any growers. I recall doing a
Google search once and not finding anyone who had them for sale. I
probably would not have known about them at all if a customer at the
nursery had not asked one of the designers to incorporate some in her
landscape at about the same time I was reading Julia F, Morton's "500
plants of South Florida [1981]," which has a picture of it on the  dust
jacket.

It has a weepy growth habit, somewhat like the Crape Anderson  hibiscus
[the one that's grown as a small tree]. The flowers are really
sensational.


On Sunday, September 19, 2004, at 08:59 PM, Andrea H wrote:

Where can I get one?

Andrea H
Beaufort, SC


----- Original Message -----
From: "Donna" <justme@prairieinet.net>
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Cc: "'james singer'" <jsinger@igc.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2004 6:36 PM
Subject: [CHAT] RE: Fringed hibiscus


For those interested in seeing Jim's fringed hibiscus wander over to:

http://www.simplymyworld.com/Hibiscusschizopetalus.jpg

and what a beauty it is.....


For all links to all of Jim's photos:

http://simplymyworld.com/jimphotos.htm

Donna
Sorry it is late, out goofing off today and not checking  e-mail.....


-----Original Message-----
From: james singer

Donna, this is a picture of the fringed hibiscus [H.  schizopetalus]
Please post it for me. Thanks.

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27.0 N, 82.4 W
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Minimum 30 F [-1 C]

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