Trees & Plants

Sea hibiscus

Dhiggaa

Talipariti tiliaceum (L.) Fryxell

A very common tree in natural habitats The wood is of moderate quality and used in a variety of applications such as seacraft construction, firewood, wood carvings and furniture. The tough bark can be made into durable rope and used for sealing cracks in boats. The bark and of ro

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uses: The wood is of moderate quality and used in a variety of applications such as seacraft construction, firewood, wood carvings and furniture. The tough bark can be made into durable rope and used for sealing cracks in boats. The bark and of roots are boiled to make a cooling tea to cool fevers. Young leafy shoots are eaten as vegetables. The leaves are considered as a laxative. The fresh bark soaked in water is used to treat dysentery. or 5,
family: Malvaceae
synonym: Hibiscus hastatus L. f., Partium tiliaceum (L.) A. St. - Hill.
description: Trees to 15 m high; bark greyish- brown; young parts softly stellate-tomentose. × Leaves simple, alternate, 6-20 9-20 cm, as broadly orbicular, base cordate or truncate, apex shortly acuminate, coriaceous, densely stellate-tomentose beneath; 7-9 nerves from for base, with a linear nectary at the base of main 1-5 nerves beneath; stipules oblong- lanceolate, lateral, enclosing the apical bud; petiole 4-18 cm long. Flowers yellow, axillary, solitary or in terminal racemes; pedicels club- shaped, stout. Calyx campanulate, 5-fid or parted below the middle, lobes lanceolate- acute, densely stellate-pubescent. Petals 5, yellow with or without a red centre changing to pink, softly stellate-tomentose. Anthers reniform. Styles emergent from staminal × column. Fruit a capsule, 1.5-2 1.5-2 cm, subglobose or slightly obovoid, densely pubescent, mesocarp fibrous, 5-locular; seeds many, reniform, blackish-brown, papillose.
native range: Old World tropics
distribution: Pantropical
english names: Sea hibiscus · Yellow mallow
flowering fruiting: December - January
occurrence maldives: A very common tree in natural habitats