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Hibiscus tilliaceus L.

Synonyms

Hibiscus boninensis, Hibiscus circinnatus, Hibiscus porophyllus, Hibiscus tiliaceus, Hibiscus tiliifolius, Hibiscus tortuosus, Pariti boninense, Pariti tiliaceum, Paritium abutiloides, Paritium circinnatum, Paritium elatum, Paritium tiliaceum

Common names

Balibago, beach hibiscus, bhendi, coastal cottonwood, coastal hibiscus, cottonwood hibiscus, green cottonwood, hau, kurrajong, native hibiscus, native rosella, Norfolk hibiscus, purau, sea hibiscus, sea rosemallow, vau tree, waru

Extract from Wikipedia article

Hibiscus tiliaceus is a species of flowering tree in the mallow family, Malvaceae, that is native to the Old World tropics. Common names include sea hibiscus, beach hibiscus, coastal (or coast) hibiscus, coastal (or coast) cottonwood, green cottonwood, native hibiscus, native rosella, cottonwood hibiscus, kurrajong, sea rosemallow, Norfolk hibiscus, balibago (Tagalog), bhendi (Marathi), balibago (Tagalog), waru (Indonesian), hau (Hawaiian), purau (Tahitian), and vau tree. The specific epithet, "tiliaceus", refers to its resemblance to the related Tilia species.

Cottonwood hibiscus (sea rosemallow, Hibiscus tilliaceus) in Dahl Al Hamam Park at Al Markhiya Street. Doha, Qatar, March 21, 2016
Al Markhiya St, Doha, Qatar

Yellow flower of cottonwood hibiscus (sea rosemallow, Hibiscus tilliaceus) from a trimmed tree in Dahl Al Hamam Park at Al Markhiya Street. Doha, Qatar, April 12, 2016
Al Markhiya St, Doha, Qatar

Back lit yellow flower of cottonwood hibiscus (sea rosemallow, Hibiscus tilliaceus) in Dahl Al Hamam Park at Al Markhiya Street. Doha, Qatar, April 12, 2016
Al Markhiya St, Doha, Qatar

Flower of cottonwood hibiscus (sea rosemallow, Hibiscus tilliaceus) in Dahl Al Hamam Park at Al Markhiya Street. Doha, Qatar, April 12, 2016
Al Markhiya St, Doha, Qatar

Close up of a flower of cottonwood hibiscus (sea rosemallow, Hibiscus tilliaceus) in Dahl Al Hamam Park at Al Markhiya Street. Doha, Qatar, April 12, 2016
Al Markhiya St, Doha, Qatar

Cottonwood hibiscus (sea rosemallow, Hibiscus tilliaceus) with flowers in Dahl Al Hamam Park at Al Markhiya Street. Doha, Qatar, April 26, 2016
Al Markhiya St, Doha, Qatar

Yellow flower of cottonwood hibiscus (sea rosemallow, Hibiscus tilliaceus) in Dahl Al Hamam Park at Al Markhiya Street. Doha, Qatar, April 26, 2016
Al Markhiya St, Doha, Qatar

Links

• Flora of Qatar.
• Unknown plants or plants without names.
• Duplicate and extra pictures of plants.
• Earlier version of collection of plants.
• Other collections of pictures from Qatar: Lizards of Qatar, Cats of Qatar, Camels of Qatar, and Fish of Qatar.
• Picture archives.
• Home page of A. Sergeev.

Outside links

• Hibiscus tilliaceus, Wikipedia article
• Hibiscus tilliaceus from www.theplantlist.org
• Ekhlas M. M. Abdel Bary, The Flora of Qatar, Volume I: The Dicotyledons. Doha 2012
• Flora of Qatar, Volume II: The Monocotyledons
• Illustrated Checklist of the Flora of Qatar. John Norton et al. 2009
• Qatar eNature. Flora
• Ali Al-Rawi, Flowering plants of Kuwait, 1985
• Plants of Kuwait
• Flora of Saudi Arabia, Al-Qassim Region
• Flora of Eastern Saudi Arabia by Rain and Dust at Flickr
• Plants of South-Western Morocco
• Pictures from Qatar (Flickr/cpmkutty)
• Arabian plants by Gary Brown
• Flora of Israel

How the web page was created

• A list of plants with their common names was written using online sources and books.
• Web pages were written by a program consisting of several scripts.
• Full names, synonyms, and classification of plants were found online from catalogueoflife.org and theplantlist.org using a script.
• Pictures of plants were selected from a database using a script.
• This web page was written using a script.

Acknowledgements

QNHG (Qatar Natural History Group) and associated people, for a possibility to participate in their field excursions and to learn about local nature.