Lavatera

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Lavatera

Lavatera is a genus

Genus

A genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the classification of living and fossil organisms. The taxonomic ranks are domain , kingdom , phylum, class , order , family , genus, and species....
of about 25 species

Species

In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring....
of flowering plant

Flowering plant

The flowering plants or angiosperms are the most widespread group of Embryophytes. The flowering plants and the gymnosperms are the only extant groups of Spermatophyte....
s in the family Malvaceae

Malvaceae

Malvaceae, or the mallow family, is a family of flowering plants containing over 200 genera with close to 2,300 species. Judd & al. The largest genera in terms of number of species include Hibiscus , Sterculia , Dombeya , Pavonia and Sida ....
, native to the Mediterranean region, central and eastern Asia

Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....
, and Australia

Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
. A number of species previously listed in this genus have now been transferred to the related genus Malva
Malva

Malva is a genus of about 25?30 species of herbaceous annual plant, biennial plant, and perennial plants in the family Malvaceae , one of several closely related genera in the family to bear the common English name mallow....
. Lavatera species are known as tree mallows, or rather ambiguously as rose mallow
Rose Mallow

Rose Mallow may refer to:*Any plant in the Lavatera genus; specially Lavatera trimestris*Any of several species in the Hibiscus genus, especially Hibiscus moscheutos...
s, royal mallow
Royal Mallow

Royal Mallow may refer to:* Lavatera assurgentiflora* Lavatera trimestris* The Royal Mallows, a fictional regiment...
s or annual mallow
Annual Mallow

Annual Mallow may refer to:* Lavatera trimestris* Malope trifida...
s.

The genus includes annual
Annual plant

An annual plant is a plant that usually germinates flowers and dies in one year. True annuals will only live longer than a year if they are prevented from setting seed....
, biennial
Biennial plant

A biennial plant is a flowering plant that takes two years to complete its biological lifecycle. In the first year the plant grows leaves, stems, and roots , then it enters a period of dormancy over the colder months....
and perennial
Perennial plant

A perennial plant or perennial is a plant that lives for more than two years. When used by gardeners or horticulturalists, this term applies specifically to perennial herbaceous plants....
herbaceous
Herbaceous

A herbaceous plant is a plant that has leaf and stem that die down at the end of the growing season to the soil level. A herbaceous plant may be Annual plant, Biennial plant or Perennial plant....
plants and soft-wooded shrub
Shrub

A shrub or bush is a horticulture rather than strictly Botany category of woody plant, distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, usually less than 5-6 m tall....
s, growing from 1-3 m tall.

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Lavatera is a genus
Genus

A genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the classification of living and fossil organisms. The taxonomic ranks are domain , kingdom , phylum, class , order , family , genus, and species....
of about 25 species
Species

In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring....
of flowering plant
Flowering plant

The flowering plants or angiosperms are the most widespread group of Embryophytes. The flowering plants and the gymnosperms are the only extant groups of Spermatophyte....
s in the family Malvaceae
Malvaceae

Malvaceae, or the mallow family, is a family of flowering plants containing over 200 genera with close to 2,300 species. Judd & al. The largest genera in terms of number of species include Hibiscus , Sterculia , Dombeya , Pavonia and Sida ....
, native to the Mediterranean region, central and eastern Asia
Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....
, and Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
. A number of species previously listed in this genus have now been transferred to the related genus Malva
Malva

Malva is a genus of about 25?30 species of herbaceous annual plant, biennial plant, and perennial plants in the family Malvaceae , one of several closely related genera in the family to bear the common English name mallow....
. Lavatera species are known as tree mallows, or rather ambiguously as rose mallow
Rose Mallow

Rose Mallow may refer to:*Any plant in the Lavatera genus; specially Lavatera trimestris*Any of several species in the Hibiscus genus, especially Hibiscus moscheutos...
s, royal mallow
Royal Mallow

Royal Mallow may refer to:* Lavatera assurgentiflora* Lavatera trimestris* The Royal Mallows, a fictional regiment...
s or annual mallow
Annual Mallow

Annual Mallow may refer to:* Lavatera trimestris* Malope trifida...
s.

The genus includes annual
Annual plant

An annual plant is a plant that usually germinates flowers and dies in one year. True annuals will only live longer than a year if they are prevented from setting seed....
, biennial
Biennial plant

A biennial plant is a flowering plant that takes two years to complete its biological lifecycle. In the first year the plant grows leaves, stems, and roots , then it enters a period of dormancy over the colder months....
and perennial
Perennial plant

A perennial plant or perennial is a plant that lives for more than two years. When used by gardeners or horticulturalists, this term applies specifically to perennial herbaceous plants....
herbaceous
Herbaceous

A herbaceous plant is a plant that has leaf and stem that die down at the end of the growing season to the soil level. A herbaceous plant may be Annual plant, Biennial plant or Perennial plant....
plants and soft-wooded shrub
Shrub

A shrub or bush is a horticulture rather than strictly Botany category of woody plant, distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, usually less than 5-6 m tall....
s, growing from 1-3 m tall. The leaves
Leaf

In botany, a leaf is an above-ground plant Organ specialized for photosynthesis. For this purpose, a leaf is typically flat and thin, to expose the cells containing chloroplast to light over a broad area, and to allow light to penetrate fully into the tissues....
are spirally arranged, and palmately lobed. The flower
Flower

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproduction structure found in flowering plants . The biological function of a flower is to mediate the union of male sperm with female ovum in order to produce seeds....
s are conspicuous, 4-12 cm diameter, with five white, pink or red petals; they are produced in terminal clusters.

Lavatera species are used as food plants by the larva
Larva

A larva is a young form of animal with indirect developmental biology, going through or undergoing metamorphosis .The larva can look completely different from the adult form, for example, a caterpillar differs from a butterfly....
e of some Lepidoptera
Lepidoptera

Lepidoptera is an order of insect that includes moths and butterfly. It is one of the most speciose orders in the class Insecta, encompassing moths and the three superfamilies of butterfly, skipper , and Hedylidae....
species including Bucculatrix lavaterella, which feeds exclusively on these plants. Flowers of several species are also used as food by humans.

Selected species

Lavatera abyssinica
Lavatera arborea
Lavatera arborea

Lavatera arborea or Malva dendromorpha, the Tree Mallow, is a species of mallow native to the coasts of western Europe and the Mediterranean region, from the British Isles south to Algeria and Libya, and east to Greece....
– (Common) Tree-mallow
Lavatera assurgentiflora
Lavatera assurgentiflora

Lavatera assurgentiflora is a plant native to the United States.References...
– Mission Mallow, Island Tree-mallow
Lavatera acerifolia
Lavatera acerifolia

Malva de Risco A shrub endemic to the Canary Islands. It grows in the basal parts of the islands, in a dry, sunny, environment. It loves soils nitrogen rich soils, specially those a bit ruderalized....
– Malva de Risco
Lavatera bryoniifolia
Lavatera cachmeriana
Lavatera cretica
Lavatera cretica

Lavatera cretica is a species of flowering plant in the Malvaceae known by the common names Cornish mallow and Cretan hollyhock....
– Smaller Tree-mallow
Lavatera insularis
Lavatera lindsayi
Lavatera maritima
Lavatera maroccana
Lavatera mauritanica
Lavatera microphylla
Lavatera oblongifolia
Lavatera olbia
Lavatera phoenicea
Lavatera phoenicea

Lavatera phoenicea is a large shrub belonging to the family Malvaceae and tribe Malveae. Webb and Berthelot included this plant in the separate, monotypic genus Navaea, dedicated to Marqu?s de Nava, the one who created the botanical garden in Puerto de la Cruz in Tenerife ....
Lavatera punctata
Lavatera stenopetala
Lavatera thuringiaca
Lavatera thuringiaca

Lavatera thuringiaca is a species of Lavatera native to eastern Europe and southwestern Asia, from southern Germany south to Italy, and east to southern Russia, Kazakhstan, and Turkey....
– Garden Tree-mallow
Lavatera triloba
Lavatera trimestris
Lavatera trimestris

Lavatera trimestris is a plant native to the Mediterranean Region. This plant is often used as a ornamental plant....
– Annual Tree-mallow
Lavatera valdesii
Lavatera vidali
Lavatera venosa

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