Hibiscus named Amethyst #4
by J McCombie
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Hibiscus named Amethyst #4
Artist
J McCombie
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Photograph - Untouched
Description
This piece has been featured in the FAA Group, "Flower On Green".
You will love this rare and new exotic plant that produces large 10 cm (4 inch) cream flowers with a contrasting purple eye and golden orange pollen on stamen sitting aloft dark purple filaments. It has purple edges on the lower side of the petals that help define them. It is a carefree plant which flowers all summer long in light soil with good drainage. Amethyst is a fast-growing, perennial or even annual, woody to herbaceous, often unbranched perennial up to 4.5 m (in culture up to 2 m or 6 feet) and alternate arranged, deeply lobed or ungulate, dark green leaves with reddish serrated leaf margins. The up to 10 cm (4 inch) tall, short-stalked, 5-petaligen, creamy white-colored flowers with purple center appear individually in the leaf axils.
Hibiscus cannabinus, is a plant in the Malvaceae family also called Deccan hemp and Java jute. Hibiscus cannabinus is in the genus Hibiscus and is native to southern Asia, though its exact origin is unknown. The name also applies to the fibre obtained from this plant. Kenaf is one of the allied fibres of jute and shows similar characteristics.
It is an annual or biennial herbaceous plant (rarely a short-lived perennial) growing to 1.5-3.5 m tall with a woody base. The stems are 1â2 cm diameter, often but not always branched. The leaves are 10â15 cm long, variable in shape, with leaves near the base of the stems being deeply lobed with 3-7 lobes, while leaves near the top of the stem are shallowly lobed or unlobed lanceolate. The flowers are 8â15 cm diameter, white, yellow, or purple; when white or yellow, the centre is still dark purple. The fruit is a capsule 2 cm diameter, containing several seeds.
The stems produce two types of fibre, a coarser fibre in the outer layer (bast fibre), and a finer fibre in the core (wood). Paper pulp is produced from the whole stem, and therefore contains two types of fibres, from the bast and from the core. The pulp quality is similar to hardwood. Kenaf is cultivated for its fibre in India, Bangladesh, United States of America, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Africa, Viet Nam, Thailand, parts of Africa, and to a small extent in southeast Europe. Kenaf was grown in Egypt over 3000 years ago. The kenaf leaves were consumed in human and animal diets, the bast fibre was used for bags, cordage, and the sails for Egyptian boats. The main uses of kenaf fibre have been rope, twine, coarse cloth (similar to that made from jute), paper, animal bedding and feed.
Uses of kenaf fibre include engineered wood, insulation, clothing-grade cloth, soil-less potting mixes, animal bedding, packing material, and material that absorbs oil and liquids. It is also useful as cut bast fibre for blending with resins for plastic composites, as a drilling fluid loss preventative for oil drilling muds, for a seeded hydromulch for erosion control. Kenaf can be made into various types of environmental mats, such as seeded grass mats for instant lawns and moldable mats for manufactured parts and containers.
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January 16th, 2018
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