Today's plant of the day for Hibiscus is Rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus 'Purpureus Variegatus').

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Rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus 'Purpureus Variegatus') .

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Rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus 'Purpureus Variegatus')

That's a gorgeous hibiscus! I thought I'd seen most all of them.

Nifty looking!!

I have it, the blooms don't fully mature. I've pryed them open and it's like a petal about to open, but they never open and enlarge. I see some kind of reproductive part, I think pollen, but they don't set seed pods.

I wonder if they are sterile are just don't get pollinated since pollinators cant get to them. It would be interesting to see if they could be hand pollinated and if so what the offspring would look like.

Horntoad said:I wonder if they are sterile are just don't get pollinated since pollinators cant get to them. It would be interesting to see if they could be hand pollinated and if so what the offspring would look like.

There is no female part, so it's impossible to set seed. I've tried using pollen from them (after removing the sticky, gooey petals) and the pollen never fertilized my normal rose of Sharon planted next to this one.