Velvetleaf
Velvetleaf (or "velvet leaf", etc.) is a common name used for plants with soft-haired leaves: * ''Abutilon theophrasti'' native to southern Asia * '' Cissampelos pareira'', native to tropical America * ''Lavatera arborea'', native to Europe * ''Limnocharis flava ''Limnocharis flava'' (commonly known as yellow velvetleaf, sawah flower rush, sawah lettuce) is a species of Aquatic plant, aquatic flowering plant which is native to Mexico, Central America, South America, Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic ...

Abutilon Theophrasti
''Abutilon theophrasti'' (velvetleaf, velvet plant, velvetweed, Chinese jute, China jute, crown weed, buttonweed, lantern mallow, butterprint, pie-marker, or Indian mallow) is an annual plant in the family Malvaceae, native to southern Asia. It's specific epithet ''theophrasti'' commemorates the ancient Greek botanist-philosopher Theophrastus. ''Abutilon theophrasti'' is the type species of the genus ''Abutilon''. Description Velvetleaf grows 3–8 feet tall on branched stout stems. Their stems are covered in downy hairs. It annually grows in the warmer seasons. It germinates in the spring, and flowers in the summer. This typically takes place between the months of July to September in certain locations. The leaves are large and heart-shaped with point tips at their ends. They grow at different points along the length of the stem or are alternated along the stem. The leaves are attached to thick, long stems, and when crushed, they release an odor. It has flowers that are yellow; ...
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Cissampelos Pareira
''Cissampelos pareira'' (velvetleaf) is a species of flowering plant in the family Menispermaceae. Morphology It is a slender tomentose climber. The leaves are peltate, 2.5–12 cm long, 2.5–11.5 cm broad, triangularly broad-ovate, or orbicular, obtuse, mucronate, base cordate or truncate, ± tomentose on both sides; petiole pubescent. Flowers are small in size, pedicels filiform. Male flowers clustered in the axil of a small leaf; sepals are 4 in number, obovate-oblong, hairy outside; petals 4 in number, united to form a 4-toothed cup, hairy outside; stamens 4, column short, anthers connate, encircling the top of the column. Female flowers clustered in the axils of orbicular, hoary imbricate bracts, on 5–10 cm long racemes; sepal 1, petal 1; carpel 1, densely hairy; style shortly 3-fid. Drupe 4–6 mm long, 3–4 mm broad, subglobose, compressed, hairy-pubescent, red when fresh, black when dry, endocarp transversely ribbed, tuberculate. Seeds are ho ...
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Lavatera Arborea
''Malva arborea'' (also known as ''Lavatera arborea'', or, more recently as ''Malva eriocalyx''), the tree mallow, is a species of mallow native to the coasts of western Europe and the Mediterranean region, from Ireland and Britain south to Algeria and Libya, and east to Greece.Malvaceae Pages''Lavatera arborea''/ref>Flora Europaea''Lavatera arborea''/ref>''Botanica. The Illustrated AZ of over 10000 garden plants and how to cultivate them'' p. 514. Könemann, 2004. Description It is a shrubby annual, biennial or perennial plant growing to 0.5–2 m (rarely 3 m) tall. The leaves are orbicular, 8–18 cm diameter, palmately lobed with five to nine lobes, and a coarsely serrated margin. The flowers are 3–4 cm diameter, dark pink to purple and grow in fasciculate axillary clusters of two to seven. It grows mainly on exposed coastal locations, often on small islands, only rarely any distance inland.Nico Vermeulen: ''The Complete Encyclopedia of Container Plants'' p. 158 ...
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