Changeable rose - Hibiscus mutabilis

Common Name :	Changeable rose.
Binomial Name :	Hibiscus mutabilis
Family :	Malvaceae
Bengali Name :	Sthol poddo.
Photo taken :	Bangladesh.

Common names of this flowering plant are Changeable rose, Cotton rose, Chinese rose, etc. This plant is native to the China. Binomial name is Hibiscus mutabilis, and it belongs to the plant family Malvaceae. This plant is not that much seen in Bangladesh (mostly in the botanical gardens, or park areas in our towns). In Bangla this is known as Sthol Poddo.

This delicately beautiful Changeable rose plant is a perennial, but deciduous. It is a shrubby plant and can grow up to a height of 3 meter. Leafs are large, rough foliage, and the petioles of the leaf are long. The growing rate of the plant is very fast (probably because its a deciduous plant).

Changeable Rose (Hibiscus mutabilis) is a very beautiful eye catching flower with the ability of changing its colour with the progress of the time. Initially the flower blooms as white (or light pink in colour) and later it changes the colour into deep pink (or purple) in maximum three days period (though mostly it happens in a single day). Flower can be double or single. Flower has a mild fragrance.

Photos of Changeable Rose (Hibiscus mutabilis) were taken from the Dhaka Botanical Garden during October 2014. In Bangla we call the flower as Sthol Poddo ful (স্থল পদ্ম ফুল).


This article has written by Lonely Traveler,
for the blog https://icwow.blogspot.com/