Gossypium (Cotton Shrubs)

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Australian Desert Rose or Cotton Shrubs are semiperennial to perennial woody shrubs in the mallow family (Malvaceae) native from subtropical and tropical regions. Most species have showy, bright colored cream, yellow or rose flowers above heart shaped to oblong leaves. They are easily grown in pots in any rich, well drained soil in full sun throughout the year. Keep drier and rather warm in winter at a minimum of some 15°C.
Sow seeds in any well drained substrate, cover slightly with soil and keep pots in full sun at some 20°C throughout the year and soil always slightly moist from beneath.
20 seeds per package.

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Gossypium australe (Australian Desert Rose)

50 (200)cm, Australian Desert Rose is a woody perennial with silvery oval gray leaves and showy rose flowers with a purplish throat. Native of dryish or sandy soils in shrub lands and forests in northern Western Australia. For any rich, well drained substrate in full sun throughout the year. Keep drier in winter at a minimum of some 15°C. VII-VIII.

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Gossypium sturtianum (Sturt's Desert Rose)

150 (200)cm, Sturt's Desert Rose is a beautiful woody shrub with showy bright rose, pale pink to dark purple or maroon flowers with a dark purplish-red throat above small oval, leathery, bluish-green leaves. This rare species is native of dryish soils in shrub lands and forests in Central and Nothern Australia. For any rich, well drained substrate in full sun throughout the year. In winter keep plants drier at a minimum of some 15°C. VII-VIII.

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