Abutilon pictum Edible and this hardy form brings

and this hardy form brings that resilience to colder ground

The spurred flowers are a small marvel of design

'Welch's Pink' is that plant

and it is the whole reason provenance matters with this one

upright evergreen first described from Hong Kong Island and named for the collector Crapnell

Abutilon pictum Edible and this hardy form bringsTwo things the common names get wrong: it is not Chinese, and it is not a maple. Abutilon pictum comes from the warm river country of southern Brazil and its neighbors, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay, and the maple lives only in the leaves, which are lobed and toothed enough to have fooled people into "flowering maple." It belongs instead to the mallow family, in good company with hibiscus, hollyhock, okra, and cotton, and it carries that