Australian and New Zealand Gardening: Flowering in October 2011, 1 by cestrum_SEQ

cestrum_SEQ wrote:
It's lovely when your flowers self-seed thru the garden, and so interesting when they hybridise and start to change.

Jean, I don't think I would have picked that as an abutilon! Very pretty. I wonder if the fact that it's a double makes it hard for the bees (or other insects) to pollinate it; perhaps you have to don your bee suit and pollinate this one yourself :-) Here are some immature seedpods on mine; the small one at bottom right fell off because it's empty, but the other two contain ripening seeds. (Don't know if they're viable, though.)

On closer inspection, the stamens are clearly visible in your abutilon, not hidden out of reach of pollinators ...

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