Sleeping Hibiscus
Malvaviscus penduliflorus Moc. & Sessé ex DC.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 3.5 m
- wide
- —
Malvaceae
Also called Giant Mexican Turk's Cap, Turk's Cap, Mazapan
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
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.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Texas to Venezuela and PeruKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 3.0 m to 4.0 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- RedRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (11)
- root
- tulipán
- Spanish
- San Joaquín
- Chinese
- 垂花懸鈴花, 南美朱槿, 垂花悬铃花
- Korean
- 하와이무궁화
- Japanese
- タイリンヒメフヨウ, ウナズキヒメフヨウ
- Chinese (China)
- 垂花悬铃花
- Russian
- Мальвавискус повислоцветковый
- Turkish
- Fes Çalısı
- French
- Hibiscus dormeur
- Simplified Chinese
- 垂花悬铃花
- Traditional Chinese
- 垂花懸鈴花
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
- 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, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Malvaviscus penduliflorus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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