Tree Mallow
Malva arborea (L.) Webb & Berthel.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.3 m
- wide
- —
Malvaceae
Formerly Althaea arborea, Anthema arborea, Lavatera arborea, Lavatera eriocalyx, and 3 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Biennial or subshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- NW. Europe to Medit.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 51 cm to 2.0 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- Pink, purpleRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
Not known yet: spread, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- French
- Mauve en arbre, Mauve royale, Lavatère arborescente
- German
- Baumförmige Strauchpappel
- Norwegian Bokmål
- trepoppelrose
- Portuguese
- Malva-gigante
- Czech
- slézovec stromový
- Japanese
- モクアオイ
- Swedish
- jättemalva
- Italian
- Malvone maggiore
- Danish
- Træ-mamelukærme
- Afrikaans
- Makkiesieblaar, mak kiesieblaar, mak kiessieblaar
- Hebrew
- מעוג השיח
- Slovenian
- drevesasti grmičasti oslez
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Malva arborea (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.