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Cape Hibiscus
Hibiscus aethiopicus
Hibiscus aethiopicus is a small, prostrate to semi-erect herbaceous perennial in the family Malvaceae, indigenous to eastern and southern Africa.
The flowers can be pale yellow to white (rarely pinkish), usually without a dark centre. The epicalyx has 10 to 12 narrow fringed bracts. The leaves are hairy and elliptic-to-oval in shape.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 587462.