Malvaceae Malvaviscus arboreus Cav.

Engraving from H.Sloane (1707 Jamaican voyage... )
| |	© H.Sloane (Sherardian lib. Oxford)

Keywords in this picture :

• Foliage
• Lamina leaf blade
• Vegetative
• Venation
• Leaf parts
• Leaf
• Plant parts

Places where this species can be found :

• Grenada - GRENADA

Species information

Description
50 Understory small shrub to treelet. Simple softly pubescent acuminate leaves, approximately 12-15 cm in length, with rounded, cordate bases. Leaf margins are serrated, and venation is palmate with the leaf having three distinct tips (somewhat like a maple, Acer species, of northern temperate forests). Flowers are distinctive, bright red, 5 cm in length, and hummingbird pollinated.

Interest
Malvaviscus - L malva, mallow, and viscus, glue. Possible reference to the pulp around the seeds. Flowers visited by hummingbirds. There are various vatieties, differing e.g. in how much the flowers open.

Specimen information

Collector
Hawthorne, W.D.

Specimen Number
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