Malvastrum hypomadarum
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Malvastrum hypomadarum, Sprague. Shrubby, sometimes reaching 10 ft., slender-branched, free-flowering: lvs. variable, usually 3-lobed and more or less toothed, sparsely soft-hairy on both sides: fls. white with rose-purple eye, about 1 ½ in. across, axillary, solitary or 2 or 3 together; petals obliquely obovate, retuse; calyx-lobes ovate, acuminate and ciliate; bractlets 3, spatulatelinear, ciliate. S. Afr. G.C. III. 43:394; 44:92. B.R. 295 (as Malva capensis).—This species was founded as late as 1908, although in cult, in Great Britain for a century under other names, as M. capense, M. virgatum, M. grossulariaefolium. Prop, by cuttings under glass in late spring, giving bloom in a cool greenhouse the following season.
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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