Hibiscus

Can anyone identify this unusual Hibiscus, please? Apparently the flowers never open. It was my therapy purchase for today.





Thank you.

 

Can't help there Lol, did you buy it before you knew the flowers wouldn't open or after, if so, why? :confused:

 

Evening, strongy. Yes, I was told before I bought it because I asked what it was as it is so unusual. I know of it, it is Australian and is beautiful in itself but I can't find a link for it. It was the only one to be had so ... I like the unusal.

 

I'm thinking it's perhaps this ...

http://www.hibiscus.org/species/tpopulnea.php

 

The only autralian native species that doesn't seem to open fully is Alyogyne hakeifolia

 

Good morning, walnut. Two things wrong with Alyogyne hakefolia and mine are the leaves and the colour.

 

Just found it ...

http://www.hear.org/starr/hiplants/images/thumbnails/html/malvaviscus_penduliflorus.htm

 

I've had a confirmation from the Fancy Hibiscus Society in America that what I have said is correct ... hurray! It's called the Sleeping Hibiscus.

 

Having looked at it LoL I have heard of it by its other name Turks cap.