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Common Names: Flowering Maple, Parlor Maple, and Indian Mallow (Perry's Perennial Pages). |
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Abutilon x hybridum |
Malvaceae |
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Common plant pest problems: arthropods such as insects, mites and pill bugs; gastropods such as slugs and snails; plant diseases such as fungus, bacteria and virus. |
Insects/other: whitefly and aphids have been observed. Tobacco bud worm (Featured Creatures), aphids, spider mites, scale insects, and mealybugs (from Perry's Perennial Pages) are listed as pests on this crop. | |
| Disease: Viruses can infest this genus and symptoms have been observed. The viruses are: Abutilon mosaic bigeminivirus, Abutilon yellows (?) closterovirus, Cotton leaf crumple bigeminivirus (Plant Viruses Online). | ||
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Notes: for more information on growing this crop, view: PanAmerican Seeds' GrowerFacts, Bella F1 Series Abutilon. Our trial observations show this crop to be best utilized in a container, viewed from below in a basket or other container, as seed in the digital images shown below. The attractive flowers tend to be hidden by foliage, and plants seem more robust in sterile, artificial soil. Read details on this crop in Articles, Papers & Reports when published to the website. |
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'Bella Pink' | PanAmerican Seed | 3.7 | Crop grown in ground beds did not perform well. Abutilon did not perform well in spring 2001, either. Flowers are less visible when this crop is used in ground beds. | |
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5.0 | Hanging baskets under saran shade grown for comparison to field plots. Performance was good, compared to the plants grown in ground beds. Flowers are more easily viewed from this elevated position. | |||
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