(Botanik, Bitkibilim) Tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern United States and West İndies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews; sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus; okra, gumbo [N. Amer], okra plant, lady's-finger, Abelmoschus esculentus
A hibiscus is a tropical bush that has large, brightly-coloured bell-shaped flowers. a tropical plant with large brightly coloured flowers. Any of about 250 species of shrubs, trees, and herbaceous plants that make up the genus Hibiscus, in the mallow family, native to warm temperate and tropical regions. Several are cultivated as ornamentals for their showy flowers. The tropical Chinese hibiscus, or China rose (H. rosa-sinensis), has large, somewhat bell-shaped reddish blossoms. The East African hibiscus (H. schizopetalus), a drooping shrub, is often grown in hanging baskets indoors. Other members of the genus include okra, rose of Sharon, and many flowering plants known by the common name mallow
rose of Sharon: Asiatic shrub or small shrubby tree having showy bell-shaped rose or purple or white flowers and usually 3-lobed leaves; widely cultivated in temperate North America and Europe
large genus of tropical and subtropical herbs and shrubs and trees often grown as ornamentals for their profusion of large flowers in a variety of colors
hibiscus
Silbentrennung
hi·bis·cus
Aussprache
Etymologie
() From Later Latin Hibiscus < Latin hibiscum < Greek ἰβίσκος, the "marsh mallow"