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Malvacea

Family Malvaceae

Description:

Malvaceae, or the mallow family, is a family of flowering plants containing over 200 genera with close to 2,300 species. Well known members of this family include okra, jute and cacao. The largest genera in terms of number of species include Hibiscus (300 species), Sterculia (250 species), Dombeya (225 species), Pavonia (200 species) and Sida (200 species) (Wikipedia)

Notes:

A small, beautiful flower that blossoms in small shrub (around 1,20 meter tall)

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3 Comments

Sergio Monteiro
Sergio Monteiro 11 years ago

Thank you again, ValB.Salares.

ValB.Salares
ValB.Salares 11 years ago

This would belong to the Malvaceae family

Gerardo Aizpuru
Gerardo Aizpuru 11 years ago

Beautiful great shots :I)

Sergio Monteiro
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Sergio Monteiro

Araucária, Paraná, Brazil

Spotted on May 25, 2012
Submitted on May 26, 2012

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