Cultural Conditions: Light: Full sun (6 or more hours of direct sunlight a day) Partial Shade (Direct sunlight only part of the day, 2-6 hours) Soil Texture: Clay High Organic Matter Loam (Silt) Soil Drainage: Good Drainage Moist Occasionally Wet Available Space To Plant: 12 inches-3 feet USDA Plant Hardiness Zone: 9a, 9b, 10a, 10b.Whole Plant Traits: Plant Type: Annual Poisonous Shrub Woody Plant Leaf Characteristics: Broadleaf Evergreen Habit/Form: Arching Erect Growth Rate: Rapid Maintenance: Low.America Edibility: Flowers are edible raw or cooked with a sweet flavor Dimensions: Height: 8 ft. Attributes: Genus: Abutilon Family: Malvaceae Life Cycle: Woody Recommended Propagation Strategy: Seed Stem Cutting Country Or Region Of Origin: Unsure- perhaps S.Tags: #showy flowers #poisonous #full sun tolerant #houseplant #white flowers #shrub #pink flowers #red flowers #yellow flowers #orange flowers #flowering tree #summer flowers #woody shrub #tropical feel #annual 'Savitzii', 'Twister', 'Variegatum', 'Voodoo', 'White King' See this plant in the following landscape: Cultivars / Varieties: Problem: Aphids, thrips, mites, whitefly, Pythium root rot are potential problems It can be pruned in spring to help keep it at a manageable size for indoors. It will bloom continuously during the growing season and the showy bell-shaped flowers come in various colors. Pinch plants to encourage bushiness and a stronger growth pattern. This plant can be grown as a houseplant outside of its native zone. Give this plant protection from the hot afternoon sun especially in hot summer areas. See below Descriptionįlowering Maple is in the mallow family and grows best in rich, constantly moist, well-drained soil. Plant them high and dry (in the winter) and they will delight you for years in your garden.Ībutilon is in the mallow family so be sure to check out our other mallows for sale.Phonetic Spelling ah-BEW-tih-lon BY HY-brih-dum This plant has medium severity poison characteristics. The key to success with abutilon is good winter drainage. Flowering maple is also great in a container or a hanging basket, where its downward facing flowers can be viewed face to face. Abutilon looks great planted in mass or weaving throughout a mixed border. Abutilon is a low growing woody subshrub that acts as an herbaceous perennial in colder climates. The summer and fall-flowering abutilon delights gardeners, butterflies and hummingbirds with its pendent bell-shaped flowers available in an array of rich colors including yellow, orange, pink, red and even bicolor. Instead, we like to wait until early spring, and then give our flowering maples a haircut when we see how far back they have died over winter. As with marginally hardy salvias, we recommend that abutilon not be pruned to the ground in the fall. In our flowering maple hardiness trials, we have found a few species and cultivars of abutilon which, when planted early in the season in well-drained sites, will perennialize. Abutilon is an exotic hibiscus relative (mallow) that has been grown for ages in containers as a houseplant with little attention paid to its winter hardiness as a sun perennial.
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