Re: Fw: Unknown plant identified..

Wim van Putten wrote:
Thanks everybody for there suggestions. I found the plant under Google. It is Abutilon angulatum, which comes from South Africa and Zimbabwe. It seems to be still very rare as garden plant. This winter we had a extreme cold night for the Algarve and it was -1degee C in my garden. The Abutilon only lost a few lower leaves, but kept flowering.
I previous suspected already that it was an Abutilon, but at that time I could not find a picture on Google which looked like it.
I am not surprised it turned out to be an Abutilon, but it certainly is a rare one. As to its surviving your frost with little damage, I grow several varieties of the ordinary A.X hybridum in my garden where we regualarly experience frost of -2 or 3°C every winter and very occasionally -5° but these continue to survive and even flower over winter apparently unconcerned. One of them has survived in my garden for upwards of twenty years, being keept youthful with a hard pruning each spring. It has produced numerous offspring over the years, some in very interesting new colours..

Moira
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