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A floral diagram is a schematic cross-section through a young flower. [1] It may be also defined as “projection of the flower perpendicular to its axis”. [3] It usually shows the number of floral parts, [Note 2] their sizes, relative positions and fusion.
Hibiscus × rosa-sinensis is considered to have a number of medical uses in Chinese herbology. [23] Traditional uses in China have been to make a black shoe-polish from its flower petals, or to make a woman's black hair dye. [24] The flowers are also used in parts of China to color various intoxicating liquors. [24]
The sepals are drawn as white lunules, the petals as black or sometimes colored lunules. The stamens are symbolized by cross sections of the anther, and the gynoecium is represented in the center of the diagram by a cross section of the ovary. Usually the pieces of one whorl alternate with the pieces of the previous whorl.
While a few drawings were done in black ink or pencil, most were finely enhanced with watercolor. Many were published in Flora Parisiensis , [ 53 ] by Poiteau and Turpin (1808) and some by Turpin (and Ernestine Panckoucke ) in Flore médicale [ 54 ] by François-Pierre Chaumeton (1814–1820).
The hibiscus flower is traditionally worn by Pacific island women, and is a known shared custom that if the flower is worn behind the left ear, the woman is married or has a boyfriend. If the flower is worn on the right, she is single or openly available for a relationship.
The flowers are borne singly in leaf axils, calyx lobes lance-shaped, 20–35 mm (0.79–1.38 in) long with a dense covering of rusty-coloured star shaped, short, matted hairs. The flower corolla 5–7 cm (2.0–2.8 in) long, pale pink, white or yellow with a dark red centre. The fruit is 20 mm (0.79 in) long and covered with straw-coloured ...
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The following species in the flowering plant genus Hibiscus were accepted by Plants of the World Online as of September 2024. [1] There have been multiple ancient ...