Alcea rosea

ALCEA rosea
(ALTHAEA rosea)
Hollyhock

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Type:
Perennial

Height: 6' (2m)

Flowering Time: Summer

Flower Colour: Red, pink, white, yellow, orange

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Botanical Classification:

Class:
Angiospermae (Angiosperms)

Subclass: Dicotyledonae (Dicotyledons)

Superorder: Dilleniidae (Dillenia Superorder)

Order: Malvales (Mallow Order)

Family: Malvaceae (Mallow Family)

Genus: Alcea (Hollyhock)

Species: rosea (pink)

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Alcea rosea is a favourite cottage-garden flower, providing unusually tall spires of open trumpet shaped flowers in every shade from white, through yellows, orange and pinks, to maroon, with a conspicuous pollen-covered central column, arising from a basal clump of large, rough leaves. There are also double-flowered varieties available, with large pom-pom flowers in similar colours, or with picotee blooms.
Although traditionally tall plants, up to 6 or 7 feet, new varieties have also been bred to provide shorter spikes, with flowers in the first year, which are more suitable for modern smaller gardens.
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Harvesting and Growing from Seed:

Germination:
Spring
Inside (7 days)
Winter
Outside (28 days)
Propagator (7 days)

Seed Pod The seeds are in a ring with the calyx leaves folded over them.
Seed The seeds are thick discs with a notch. There are many seeds in a pod.
Seedling The seedling is large and fast growing. The first true leaves are rounded, lobed, and crinkled.

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				Germination: Spring Inside (7 days) Winter Outside (28 days) Propagator (7 days)
Seed Pod The seeds are in a ring with the calyx leaves folded over them. Seed The seeds are thick discs with a notch. There are many seeds in a pod. Seedling The seedling is large and fast growing. The first true leaves are rounded, lobed, and crinkled.