The Southern Living Garden Book, my go to for info says the abutilon is a malvaceae, as is the hibiscus. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Partly because the snow is still so deep outside and partly because I am tired of showing the same abutilon, and barely blooming begonia. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Your ‘lantern’ looks like a type of abutilon to me. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Your mystery plant is very pretty… the leaves look a bit like velvetleaf, which I think is in the abutilon/malva family. ❋ Unknown (2009)
This is my first abutilon indoors and it would get a high recommendation. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The abutilon hybrid looks like a hibiscus may be they are related. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Beautiful orchids, love the abutilon. garden girl said this on May 1, 2008 at 8:35 am | Reply ❋ Unknown (2008)
The new canna and abutilon will earn their keep, it is hoped, with flowers and foliage that delight. ❋ Unknown (2008)
This abutilon hybrid, variety unknown, was in a mixed container planting of perennials from a big box store, marked down at the end of the season. ❋ Unknown (2008)
I planted my red abutilon outside and have a frozen stick… if another one shows up on the bargain table it might be designated a houseplant instead. ❋ Unknown (2008)
It is still a shock to have received the abutilon in bloom, good old PDN! ❋ Unknown (2008)
Evergreen should have some kind of cannas and possibly abutilon, which has to come inside in winter. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Love that pretty abutilon, I have a pink one, also with lovely veining. ❋ Unknown (2008)
I grew abutilon this summer and had success with them in pots on my patio. ❋ Unknown (2008)
In such comparatively soft-wooded, free growing plants as the abutilon the descent of the cambium is very free and in considerable quantity, so that the stock would soon be inclosed in a layer of it descending from the graft. ❋ Various (N/A)
It hung like the flower of the cream-white, pendulous abutilon, with pollen of yellow stars beaded in dew and throwing off a rich, delicate, aromatic odor, smelt nowhere on earth save in a cottonfield, damp with early dew and warmed by the rays of the rising sun. ❋ John Trotwood Moore (N/A)
As a proof of leaf variegation being a disease, the speaker alluded to cited a case in which a green leaved abutilon, upon which a variegated leaved variety had been grafted, threw out a variegated leaved shoot below the graft. ❋ Various (N/A)
Yen Shih-ku defines [omission: Chinese characters] as [omission: Chinese characters] "woven fibres of Sida or hemp abutilon, Boehmeria nivea or Urtica nivea, made into cloth and coarse." ❋ Unknown (1938)
Along the walls were shelves reached by short ladders, and on these shelves were ranged cacti, gardenias (Cape Jessamine, or jasmine, as we knew this queen of flowers), abutilon, golden globes of lantana, and the much-prized snowy Camellia Japonica, sure to sent packed in cotton as gifts to adorn the dusky tresses of some Virginia beauty, or clasp the folds of her diaphanous kerchief. ❋ Unknown (1909)
In my section an annoying weed is abutilon, or velvet-leaf, also called "old maid," which has fallen from the grace of the garden and followed the plow afield. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)
