Malvaviscus arboreus (pink) Best Seller a tradition later taken up

a tradition later taken up by the Eclectic physicians of the nineteenth century

The summer bloom is subtle rather than shouting

in other words

Dirr named the plant 'Katherine' for his daughter

Every nursery keeps a few mysteries

Malvaviscus arboreus (pink) Best Seller a tradition later taken upThis is the uncommon pink flowered Turk's cap, a soft toned form of the familiar scarlet Malvaviscus arboreus, a subtropical relative of the hibiscus in the mallow family, Malvaceae. The flowers carry the same charming quirk as the red kind: two to three inches long, they never open flat like a hibiscus but stay furled in a little turban, glowing here in clear pink rather than red. Turk's cap is herbaceous at the cold edge of the range and a shrubby