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Sonora, Mexico
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H1-1 Road East of Pretoriuskop, Kruger NP, Mpumalanga, SOUTH AFRICA
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Murabilia 2021 - Lucca
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Juno Beach, Florida, United States
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Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, NY (May 21, 2017)
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Orto botanico di Firenze - Florence botanical garden
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Christmas, Florida, United States
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Madre de Dios, Peru
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Family: MalvaceateDistribution: Found alond streams in the coast in tropics.A prickly many branched trailing shrub, Leaves 3.5-5cm long, palmately 3-5 lobed, cordate at base, lobes linear lanceolate, serrate,stipules foliaceous, flowers yellow with purple centre, solitary, axillary, involucral bracts spathulate- apiculate, retrose, persistent, calyx with small prickles, capsule 1-2cm long, ovoid, covered with bristled hairs. Photographed at a village near Bay of bengal in Nellore district.Ref: Flora of Presidency of Madras by J.S.Gamble.
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Cromarty, Queensland, Australia
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Murabilia 2021 - Lucca
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Kokio ula, Kokio ulaula, or Hawaiian red hibiscusMalvaceaeEndemic to the Hawaiian IslandsEndangeredOahu (Cultivated)Shrubs to small trees.Kokio was pounded with other plants, juice strained, and taken to purify blood. The leaves were chewed and swallowed as a laxative or mothers would chew buds and given to infants and children as a laxative. Mother would also chew the buds and give to children or children would eat the seeds to strengthen a weak child.NPH00005
nativeplants.hawaii.edu/plant/view/Hibiscus_kokio_kokio
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Mao hau heleMalvaceaeEndemic to the Hawaiian IslandsIUCN: Endangered Oahu (Cultivated), N.W. Lnai formThis unique form is nearly glabrous (no hairs) leaves. There is yet another form on Lnai that is totally, or as can be, glabrous, and has only a few specimens remaining in the wild in a protected exclosure.Mao hau hele was planted for an ornamental use by early Hawaiians.Hibiscus brackenridgei has been chosen to represent the official flower for the State of Hawaii. (See story at the website below)
nativeplants.hawaii.edu/plant/view/Hibiscus_brackenridgei...
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Kokio ula, Kokio ulaula, or Hawaiian red hibiscusMalvaceae (Mallow family)Endemic to the Hawaiian Islands (Kauai)Oahu (Cultivated)A form known as kahilii, with possible recognition as a full species: Hibiscus kahilii.Kokio was pounded with other plants, juice strained, and taken to purify blood. The leaves were chewed and swallowed as a laxative or mothers would chew buds and given to infants and children as a laxative. Mother would also chew the buds and give to children or children would eat the seeds to strengthen a weak child.EtymologyThe generic name Hibiscus is derived from hibiscos, the Greek name for mallow.The specific and subspecific epithet kokio comes from the Hawaiian name for this hibiscus.
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Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
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Philadelphia International Airport, Pennsylvania, United States
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Pafuri, Limpopo, South Africa