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Angela

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Big Island, HI
« on: December 03, 2011, 04:50:59 AM »
Just wondering if anyone has any idea what this one is.  Smiley

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Angela

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Big Island, HI
« Reply #1 on: December 03, 2011, 04:53:45 AM »
Sorry everyone because it's not much of a guessing game because I really don't know what it is! Huh
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Charlie
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« Reply #2 on: December 03, 2011, 10:59:07 AM »
Where did you get this one, Angela? It looks something like Marilyn Quail (sp?) but not sure how you could have gotten one of those. MQ had a really bad bush, sticky and horizontal growth but the flower was pretty. Your flower shows darker than MQ but it may be the photo rather than the flower. Below is a photo of MQ.

Charlie

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topshelf12

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« Reply #3 on: December 03, 2011, 11:16:10 AM »
  I am a rookie but her it goes anyway... Deep Purple?
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Angela

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Big Island, HI
« Reply #4 on: December 04, 2011, 04:55:52 AM »
Quote from: Charlie on December 03, 2011, 10:59:07 AM
Where did you get this one, Angela? It looks something like Marilyn Quail (sp?) but not sure how you could have gotten one of those. MQ had a really bad bush, sticky and horizontal growth but the flower was pretty. Your flower shows darker than MQ but it may be the photo rather than the flower. Below is a photo of MQ.

Charlie
Ya mean sticky like this??
And this was after I pruned a lot of the sticks out of the center!

Dean got it from a small local nursery... I don't know where the owner got it from.

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Angela

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Big Island, HI
« Reply #5 on: December 04, 2011, 05:04:54 AM »
Are the petals kind of thin on MQ?  The petals are a lot less beefy than all my cajuns. But I think you are probably right. I took my pic on an overcast day (which is almost everyday up here where I live).
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Charlie
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« Reply #6 on: December 04, 2011, 06:01:50 AM »
Marilyn Quayle is not widely sold and I doubt one made its way to a nursery in HI. The colors are not an exact  match either. Deep Purple is a good match for color but it would be impossible for that new variety to have been sold in HI a couple of years ago. Only about a dozen people in the world have it now and its got a very nice, upright bush.

Another possibility is that this is a local hybrid that was never named. Hybridizing hibiscus has been popular in HI since the early 1900's and thousands of hybrids have been made over that time. Most are now extinct and very few were named and registered in the Hibiscus Nomenclature but this could be one that was propagated because of the pretty color.

Charlie
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Angela

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Big Island, HI
« Reply #7 on: December 04, 2011, 06:13:19 AM »
I think the plant was bought over seven years ago.
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