Fringed rosemallow
ঝুমকো জবা
Hibiscus schizopetalus (Mast.) Hook.f.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 2.5 m
- wide
- 1.7 m
Malvaceae
Formerly Hibiscus fauriei
When it flowers
JFMAMJJASOND
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
PetsNo pet-safety information yet
PeopleNo safety information yet
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Scrambling shrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SE. Kenya to E. TanzaniaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Top Tropicals and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: Top Tropicals full, part; Wikipedia full
- Height
- 2.3 m to 2.7 mRead from Top Tropicals and Wikipedia, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Top Tropicals 5–8 ft; Wikipedia 3–3 m
- Spread
- 1.5 m to 1.8 mRead from Top Tropicals, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Top Tropicals, one source
- Flowers
- RedRead from Top Tropicals and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: Top Tropicals red; Wikipedia pink, red
- Coldest it survives
- 4.5 °C (USDA zone 11a)Read from Top Tropicals and Wikipedia, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Top Tropicals -1.1 °C; Wikipedia 10 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (4)
- Chinese
- 扶桑叶, 吊灯花, 吊灯扶桑
- Simplified Chinese
- 灯笼花, 假西藏红花, 吊灯扶桑
- Chinese (Taiwan)
- 裂瓣朱槿
- Bangla
- ঝুমকো জবা
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Top Tropicals, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 2.0
- 3D model: Hibiscus schizopetalus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.