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Shaggy Abelmoschus (Latin Abelmoschus crinitus) - picturesque flowering shrub
genus Abelmoschus (Latin Abelmoschus), ranked by botanists to
the Malvaceae family (Latin Malvaceae) … The plant is thermophilic, and therefore chose the lands of South and Southeast Asia as its place of residence. Shaggy Abelmos adorns the planet Earth with its carved large leaves and funnel-shaped flowers of various colors, ranging from white-cream to dark shades of yellow-orange, with a reddish spot in the center of the flower. Like many species of plants of the Abelmos genus, it is used by traditional healers in places of natural growth.
The area of Abelmos the shaggy
Abelmos shaggy is a heat-loving plant that has chosen the lands of such countries as China, India, Flippins, Myanmar (Burma), Laos, Thailand, Nepal, Vietnam and the island of Java for its life. Very rarely, Shaggy Abelmos can be found in Pakistan.
The shrub prefers to settle in deciduous forests, as well as on mountain slopes covered with grass, within an altitude of three hundred to one thousand three hundred meters above sea level.
The first description of the plant belongs to a botanist (and surgeon) named Nathaniel Wallich (Danish and English scientist), who during his sixty-eight (68) years of life (1786-28-01 - 1854-28-04) made a significant contribution to the study of the flora of India, Nepal, Burma …
Description
Abelmos shaggy is a perennial upright shrub that grows, depending on environmental conditions, to a height of half a meter to one and a half meters. The underground part of the plant is represented by fusiform tuberous roots. The stems rising from the roots, as well as stems bearing leaves and flowers, are usually bristly from the hairs covering them.
The shape of the petiole leaves can be very different: round, broadly ovoid, cordate at the base of the leaf plate, angular, lobed (from five to seven lobes). The length of the leaves varies from ten to fifteen centimeters. The edge of the leaf plate is decorated with coarse teeth. The surface of the leaves has a bristly hairy cover, thicker and more dense on the underside of the leaf. There are linear stipules one to two stimeters long. The length of the leaf petioles ranges from one to eighteen centimeters.
In the axils of the leaves, as a rule, single, large flowers are born on two-centimeter pedicels, which grow in length up to three centimeters in the fruits of the plant. Pseudo-sepals, ten to sixteen centimeters long, look like miniature green snakes covered with whitish hairs. They surround a flower bud or fruit, giving the plant a shaggy appearance, which was the reason for the specific epithet "crinitus" ("shaggy"). The corolla of the flower reaches a diameter of six to seven centimeters. Flower petals can be bright yellow, creamy white, dark orange with a purple or reddish spot in the center.
The fruit of the Shaggy Abelmos is a capsule, the shape of which ranges from ovoid to round. The length of such a capsule varies from three and a half to five centimeters with a width in diameter from two and a half to three and a half centimeters. The surface of the fruit is also covered with hairs, giving them a bristly velvety appearance. Inside the capsule there are kidney-shaped or spherical seeds, naked (less often) or velvety, rusty or black, reaching three to three and a half centimeters in diameter.
Usage
Abelmos shaggy is a rather picturesque and spectacular plant, which is suitable for decorating parks and gardens in areas with a warm climate.
In places of natural growth, it is used by folk medicine for the treatment of a number of ailments.
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