Plant ID help

 

I still have a batch of pictures from a years ago Wildman Steve Brill
foraging walk that I have not yet put on the web. This means this batch is
not yet merged into my http://foragingpictures.com/  album. Before I can
process them there are four pictures I need to identify. They are shown at:

http://donwiss.com/PP-20060701.htm

What are they?

Don <www.donwiss.com> (e-mail link at home page bottom).

 



 #4 may be Hibiscus

http://images.google.com/images?q=Hibiscus&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

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   Bill   Garden in shade zone 5 S Jersey USA
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On 3/25/10 12:46 PM, Don Wiss wrote:

If #4 is not a hibiscus, it is still a mallow.  Mallows include
hibiscus, blue hibiscus, okra, Lavatera, and hollyhock.

--
David E. Ross
Climate:  California Mediterranean
Sunset Zone: 21 -- interior Santa Monica Mountains with some ocean
influence (USDA 10a, very close to Sunset Zone 19)
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Not Lavatera; not hollyhock, both of which have filiform stigmas (and
more than 5 style arms). Not Alygoyne (blue hibiscus) (wrong colour). It
would be something in tribe Hibisceae, and probably not one of the
schizocarpic fruited genera (e.g. Malvaviscus, Pavonia), which have 10
style arms. Not Abelmoschus (okra) (foliage wrong).

It doesn't look that far off Hibiscus rosa-sinensis (leaf shape and
androecial structure seem to match).
--
Stewart Robert Hinsley

 

David E. Ross wrote:

To my inexpert eye it looks like a hibiscus.  I am guessing that there are
several plants around the world locally called hibiscus.  Which "hibiscus"
is it not and why not?

David