hibisci

The normal behavior of the flowers of the shrubby althaea (H. syriacus L.) of our hedgerows and flower gardens is practically the same as that of the swamp hibisci.

1928, Torrey Botanical Club, Torreya, volume 28, The Period of Anthesis in Hibiscus, Alexander F. Skutch and Robert L. Burwell, Jr, page 2

The shrubby hibisci can be trained to form standard size trees by discarding all stems with the exception of one which serves for the central axis. […] Hibisci and malvaceous plants are generally infested with the following fungi as:– / […]

1948, Quarterly Journal of the Taiwan Museum, volume 1, pages 26, 28

I talked to a fairly knowledgeable woman who works at a local nursery yesterday, asking her why they don't carry Acacia farnesiana or any acacias at all for that matter. She said it's because acacias get killed by the occasional hard freeze that we have here in Central Florida every 8 to 10 years. I pointed out that hibiscus gets killed by these freezes too, but no nursery would give up selling hibisci for that reason -- to which she had no reply.

1993 May 10, Rick Harrison, “seeking Acacia farnesiana, continued”, in rec.gardens (Usenet), message-ID <VumB4B1w164w@jwt.oau.org>

The few buds it had at the time fell off long before they were ready to open. I thought I had some sort of virus, but a guy at Wolf's said hibiscus (hibisci?) are prone to iron deficiency and need lots of acid.

1996 July 19, Gwyn Vaughn, “Re: hibiscus show?”, in austin.gardening (Usenet), message-ID <4sp3af$cc2@pentagon.io.com>

Boy, I sure could be spouting nonsense, but I had thought that there were not perrrenial^([sic]) hibisci for that far north. Round here, (Texas), the texas hibiscus which grows wild dies back to the crown (I'm pretty sure).

1997 October 3, Caleb Rounds, “Re: Hibiscus moscheutos”, in rec.gardens.ecosystems (Usenet), message-ID <MOD$971003.9528@rec.gardens.ecosystems>