What Is This Flower?
I’m doing that Steve Garfield thing, where you have a question you want answered (and your last Ask MetaFilter questions was asked too recently) and you ask your reader…
What is this flower? Mom says it isn’t a morning glory.
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Comment by Smoooochie
July 28, 2006 @ 2:09 pm
I can’t see the foliage well enough to tell, but I agree with Nanu. It looks like hibiscus.
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Comment by Abby
July 28, 2006 @ 5:28 pm
It turned around over the course of the day and is now completely closed.
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Comment by Abby's mom
July 28, 2006 @ 6:51 pm
I think Nanu & Smoooochie have nailed it. However, it’s not your everyday garden variety hibiscus. It’s huge!
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Comment by Abby
July 28, 2006 @ 6:59 pm
It looks really little now… all closed up. I think you guys are right.
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Comment by Peterson Toscano
July 28, 2006 @ 7:35 pm
No no no! Step away from the flower. It is the highly poisonous Hercanibus Pinkus–so poisonous that even looking at it in a photograph can cause someone to experience searing pain and AAAAHHHH!!!!!! Must…get…off-line…ugh! searing pain………..
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Comment by Peterson Toscano
July 28, 2006 @ 7:46 pm
searing pain and…AAAAHHHH!…and a….AAAAHHHH!!!!
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Comment by Abby's mom
July 28, 2006 @ 9:15 pm
Mary Ann has declared it a hibiscus, and she’s a Master Gardener.
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Comment by Abby
July 28, 2006 @ 10:37 pm
Hoorah! The mystery has been solved and multiply confirmed. Poor Peterson! 😛
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Comment by Dianne
July 31, 2006 @ 10:46 am
It could also be a Rose of Sharon. But it could be a hibiscus too-I guess there are pink hibiscus.
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Comment by Dianne
July 31, 2006 @ 10:48 am
Well, I should have looked first-Rose of Sharon is a form of hibiscus. : )
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Comment by Abby's mom
July 31, 2006 @ 5:57 pm
As my name is Sharon, someone gave me a Rose of Sharon, which is now blooming near my back porch. I looked at it yesterday and thought about its similarity to the hibiscus, but I didn’t know it actually is a hibiscus!
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Comment by Renee
August 1, 2006 @ 12:55 pm
This is so totally a Rose of Sharon, so your mom should know! And yes, it’s in the hibiscus family. Flowers are my thing, man! Any other stumpers??
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Comment by Nanu
July 28, 2006 @ 1:11 pm
Looks like Hibiscus.