Malvaviscus arboreus (pink) Best Seller a broad rosette of thick

a broad rosette of thick

Every nursery keeps a few mysteries

The summer bloom is subtle rather than shouting

Dirr named the plant 'Katherine' for his daughter

and skin infections

Malvaviscus arboreus (pink) Best Seller a broad rosette of thickThis is the uncommon pink flowered Turk's cap, a soft toned form of the familiar scarlet Malvaviscus arboreus, a subtropical relative of the hibiscus in the mallow family, Malvaceae. The flowers carry the same charming quirk as the red kind: two to three inches long, they never open flat like a hibiscus but stay furled in a little turban, glowing here in clear pink rather than red. Turk's cap is herbaceous at the cold edge of the range and a shrubby