2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Familiar from childhood in the village front gardens, Malva turned out to be not so simple, when the "world wide web" made it easy to get acquainted with any information. Mallow is a plant that meticulous botanists divide into different genera and species. Moreover, there are several classifications that differ from each other. For an inexperienced beauty lover, all these "divisions" are not taken into account, and therefore, any species that delight with their flowering, occupy their niche in flower beds
Rod Malva or Mallow
Unpretentious herbaceous perennials or annuals with large funnel-shaped flowers growing in the wild. White, pink, lilac or purple flowers with one row of petals look much more natural than their double cousins. The relatively large size of the flowers does not prevent them from remaining touching and delicate.
Leaves cling to strong erect stems with long and sturdy petioles. The shape of the leaves can be different: palmate or lobed.
Plants that are familiar to us belong to this genus of botanists:
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Forest mallow (Malva sylvestris) - Known for its healing properties, one-year or two-year-old Mallow can often be found in the wild. Its pink flowers can be seen far away among the greenery. The leaves of Mallow are forest rounded, deeply palate-separated.
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Musk mallow (Malva moschata) is a medium-sized (30-60 cm high) perennial with rounded leaves. Fans of a masculine musky scent just need to rub the leaf with their fingers. White or pink large flowers adorn the bush throughout the summer.
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Mallow stock-pink (Malva alcea) is a tall (up to a meter high) perennial. Pink or red (in the "Pointed" variety) single flowers cover the plant from summer to autumn. The deeply fumigated leaves are light green and have a jagged edge.
Genus Stockrose, Althea or Malva
Botanically, this genus is close to the genus described above, but differs in higher growth, larger decorative flowers, among which there are not only simple, but also double specimens. The flowers are painted in a variety of tones and form a powerful inflorescence in the form of a spike-shaped brush. They are increasingly pushing Malva-Malva out of their dacha territories, since their appearance competes with roses, which require much more attention from the gardener to their person.
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Hollyhock (Althaea rosea) is a tall (up to 3 m high) decorative perennial. Five-seven-lobed rough leaves, as the height of straight, strong pubescent stems, lose their large scope, becoming smaller. Large (up to 15 cm in diameter) flowers of various shades (up to black and red) grow to match the height and size of the leaves. This flowery decoration can be simple, semi-double or double, creating huge inflorescences.
Stockrose pink has several very
decorative varieties
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Stockrose pink, black (Althaea rosea var.nigra) - with beautiful velvety black-red flowers.
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Stockrose pink, semi-double (Althaea rosea var. semiplene) - semi-double large flowers of various colors.
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Stockrose pink, terry (Althaea rosea var.flore pleno hort) - with very large double flowers. In some varieties, the flowers are similar to those of a peony. It is considered the most decorative Stockrose.
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Stockrose figulosa (Althaea ficifolia) is a lush two-meter perennial. As it climbs the strong stem, the shape of the leaves changes from finger-cut to a simpler, lanceolate. In summer, large simple flowers bloom, forming spike-shaped long inflorescences. The color of the flowers is yellow or bright orange. The original botanical species of Stockrose figutifolia is almost supplanted by hybrids obtained from its crossing with Stockrose rosea.
Other members of the Malvaceae family
Among Malvovs, growing in warm regions, one can find not only herbaceous representatives, but also shrubs, vines and even trees. The time for trees in Russia has not yet come, but shrubs are beginning to appear. Moreover, the stories of their appearance on our land are surprisingly fabulous.
For example, lovers of exotic, having visited countries with a year-round summer, bring home tea leaves with the name "hibiscus". Having discerned the seeds among the dry petals, they manage to cultivate a shrub from them, which is called"
Hibiscus »And belongs to the Malvovye family.
And I like the delicate white and pink flowers of hardy and unpretentious
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