Small single coral pink flower with deeper pink veins and an intense red centre; the backs of the petals are edged in cream.
598 — Number of the plant
at the book: The Mother. The Spiritual Significance of Flowers.- 1-st Ed. / Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Pondicherry (India).- Singapore: Ho Printing, 2000.- ISBN 81-7058-609-7
Classification
► Division Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
► Class Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
► Subclass Dilleniidae
► Order Malvales
► Family Malvaceae - Mallow family
► Subfamily Malvoideae
► Tribe Hibisceae
► Genus Hibiscus L. - Rosemallow
Synonyms
Common names
China-rose (English)
Chinese hibiscus (English)
Chinese rose (English)
Confederate rose mallow (English)
Cotton rose (English)
Hawaiian hibiscus (English)
Hibiscus (English)
Japanese rose (English)
Java (English)
Red hibiscus (English)
Rose-of-China (English)
Shoe black (English)
Shoe flower (English)
Shoeblackplant (English)
Tropical hibiscus (English)
Hibiscus de Chine (French)
Hibiscus rose de Chine (French)
Rose de Chine (French)
Kinesisk rose (Danish)
Chinese roos (Dutch)
Chinesischer Roseneibisch (German)
Rosa della Cina (Italian)
Ketmia róza-chinska (Polish)
Hibisco (Portuguese)
Rosa-da-China (Portuguese)
Гибискус (Russian)
Clavel japonés (Spanish)
Hibiscus de los jardines (Spanish)
Rosa de China (Spanish)
Gurhal (India (Hindi))
Jasum (India (Hindi))
Java (India (Hindi))
Japa (India (Sanskrit))
Japa pushpam (India (Sanskrit))
Japapushpam (India (Sanskrit))
Cembarutti (India (Tamil))
Cemparattai (India (Tamil))
Sembaruthi (India (Tamil))
Semparuthi (India (Tamil))
Baarhmaase phuul (Nepalese)
Gudahal (Nepalese)
Japa puspii (Nepalese)
Japaa kusum (Nepalese)
Rakta puspi (Nepalese)
Bunga raya (Malay)
Chaba (Thai)
Da hong hua (Chinese)
Fo sang (Chinese)
Zhu jin (Chinese)
Fusou (Japanese)
Haibisukasu (Japanese)
Fu sang (Taiwan (Chinese))
Mimo de Vênus (Brazil (Portuguese))
Mimo-chinês (Brazil (Portuguese))
Pejo (Colombia (Spanish))
Palo de la reina (Panama (Spanish))
Papo (Panama (Spanish))
Tapo (Panama (Spanish))
Description
Flowers are medium, large or very large; the single forms have five petals and a prominent exserted staminal column with yellow anthers along the sides near the tip and ending in five tiny velvety stigma pads; the double and semi-double forms are loosely to densely ball-like, the petals usually hiding the reproductive parts; borne singly from the leaf axils.
For God is infinite and his manifestation is infinite. The forms of his manifestation too are innumerable. Each form is a symbol of some divine power, vibhuti, concealed in it and to the seeing eye each finite carries in it its own revelation of the infinite.
Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 13. - Essays on the Gita
To realise its own power and to master as well as to know its world is therefore the increasing impulse of all individual life; that impulse is an essential feature of the growing self-manifestation of the Divine in cosmic existence.
Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 18. - The Life Divine: Books 1