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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Wordless Wednesday - Trailing Abutilon


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Family: Malvaceae
Botanical name: Abutilon megapotamicum
Common name: Trailing abutilon, Chinese lanterns, flowering maple , Brazilian bell-flower
Origin: Brazil

Photographs taken by Autumn Belle at The Secret Garden of 1-Utama
Grateful thanks to Dr. Francis Ng of The Secret Garden of 1-Utama.
You can visit Dr. Francis Ng's blog here.
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My post today is dedicated to jodi DeLong, writer, editor and photographer from Canning, Canada of Bloomingwriter: Gardening in Nova Sotia. She was the first commenter of my previous post on the "My Blog Plans for 2010. Congratulations to jodi who is currently celebrating her 4th Blogaversary. I just love the big bouquet of lavender in her latest post. Quick! Why not hop over there to congratulate her.

19 comments:

  1. Chinese lanterns?

    But how nice they can last long for me to decorate my garden over the Chinese New Year festical.

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  2. What a lovely, delicate flower, they do look like little laterns.
    Sunny :)

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  3. I love flowers that looks like little paper lanterns. What a pretty vining plant.

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  4. They look beautiful, great close ups.

    http://tinyurl.com/yzwgna2

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  5. Rainfield, Sunny, Wendy, Dragonflylady, These flowers are quite tiny but I think they do have a unique shape. If I can grow a lot of these and get them to bloom during Chinese New Year, it will be great as we consider red and yellow very auspicous colours. I also think that they look like lady evening gowns, maybe for the tiny elves and fairies that lives among the flowers and plants there.

    When I check the images from the internet, the flowers are red/yellow combination. I never see the red/pink combi flowers. I wonder why?

    Is anyone growing this in their garden?

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  6. those are lovely, unique blooms. i'm not sure if i've seen anything like that before. Happy WW!

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  7. Those flowers are so unique, I don't think I've seen them here.

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  8. The flowers look like tiny little lamps....Its the first time round i have come across this particular plant. Thx for sharing!

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  9. I had forgotten all about this plant Autumn. They do have the pretties shaped blooms.

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  10. Autumn, thank you for the warm dedications (two in a row! I'm honoured!) and for the joy of having your blog to read. I've never seen a trailing abutilon (the regular parlour varieties are found at greenhouses to be used as houseplants or outdoor annuals), so this was a real delight to see.

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  11. Hello Autumn Belle,

    The Abutilon are just beautiful.

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  12. Hello Autumn Belle, those Abutilon photos are beautiful. I have seen them also in this country and i have some photos in the past. I also fancy their design.

    I was out yesterday, but i already congratulated Jodi on her anniversary. What time do you normally post your blog?

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  13. I wonder if they have seeds inside?

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  14. Cool! They are just grown as annuals here in the Northeastern U.S. (sigh). I've never seen them so big!

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  15. Wonderful plants! a dream garden!
    Hapy WW!

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  16. Nice flower! I like the simple trellis that they have built here. The plant is going to enjoy the climb!

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  17. A nice welcome sight from cold snowcovered Surrey

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  18. Life Ramblings, Jama, Radhika, Lona, Jodi, Noelle, Green Seeds, Mary Anne, Carmen, Stephanie, Joanne, I'm glad you like this little lantern flower too.

    Andrea, I still don't have time to prepare my post in advance and do scheduling, so I can only post it to my blog when I have finished writing my post. Therefore timing is uncertain. In case, you have any related post regarding the flowers that I have posted, do let me know and I'll be happy to link to you.

    James, as I know, this plant can be propagated by seeds and cuttings. The plant info can be obtained with a google search. This is an annual plant and the disadvantage is that it tends to attract a lot of white flies and bugs. Our blotanist friend, Jacqueline has written about it, the link is here:

    http://www.jaycjayc.com/trailing-abutilon-megapotamicum-flowering-maple/

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