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please identify this plant
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Looks like abutilon
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also called Chinese lantern
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and also flowering maple, Indian mallow
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Abutilon; Many plants were offered for sale on this flower show. It did not attract me enough to buy some. To me it looked like a poor cousin of Hibiscus.
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It is best grown under semi shade..
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Arif sb you are right it does like a poor cousin of the habiscus family, i was going to use it for the spring beds till september, do they survive direct sun since most of my beds get 6-8 hours of direct sun light if not any alternative plants i could use for covering the beds till september.
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