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The name "rose of Sharon" is also commonly applied to several horticultural plants, [12] all originating outside the Levant and not likely to have been the plant from the Bible: Hypericum calycinum, the usual plant known by this name in British English. It is an evergreen flowering shrub native to southeast Europe and southwest Asia.
The flowers are 3–5 cm in diameter, a rich yellow, with five petals and numerous yellow stamens. Its flowers can be described as "rose-like" and tend to be single or in units of two or three, [4] flowering in June to September. [6] Hypericum calycinum is indigenous to southeast Europe and southwest Asia.
An unsung hero of the late summer garden is rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus). This shrub's branches are studded with pastel blossoms year after year, despite drought, poor soil or general neglect.
[3] [4] [5] Common names include the rose of Sharon, [6] (especially in North America), Syrian ketmia, [7] shrub althea [8] (or simply althea [9] [10]), and rose mallow (in the United Kingdom). It is the national flower of South Korea and is mentioned in the South Korean national anthem .
The species usually have one flower, but very rarely can have up to ten that come from two nodes. The flowers are stellate and homostylous and have five free sepals that are persistent, five petals that are persistent and spreading, and three to five stamen fascicles with anywhere from ten to eighty stamens. The seeds are cylindric. [6]
2 Korean national flower. Toggle Korean national flower subsection. 2.1 Works cited. 3 Narcissus? ... Rose of Sharon. Add languages. Page contents not supported in ...
' lily of the valley '), likely the narcissus; and ḥavatzelet ha-Sharon (lit. ' rose/lily of the Sharon '), likely the sea daffodil. [1] Solomon likens his Shulamite love interest to the last-named flower, also referred to in the Mishnah as the "king's rose." [2] According to the Tanakh, ancient Jews made us of flowers as a natural form of ...
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