Tropical Zone Gardening: Restless natives of the Top End, 1 by tropicbreeze

tropicbreeze wrote:
This is the Hibiscus I have in the pot at home. When I collected it as a small plant I thought it was the same at the previous one, the small leaves were similar. Since it's flowered I can see the difference. The leaves on this one are serrated with bigger lobes. And the other one has a pale "off-yellow" flower, this one is a brighter yellow. There is only about 20 - 30 kilometres separating where I've found them, the first in open woodland on flattish but well drained soil, the latter on the slope of a steep hill of fairly heavy soil. Both low growing and tangled up in grasses.

16 March 2009:

As mentioned/edited in the earlier post, I'm now pretty certain this is Abelmoschus moschatus. It's a variable species and very wide spread.

This message was edited Mar 16, 2009 1:44 PM

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This message was edited Mar 23, 2009 12:27 PM