ABUTILON (from the Arabic aubutilslae, a name given by Avicenna to this or an allied genus)

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ABUTILON (from the Arabic aubutilslae, a name given by Avicenna to this or an allied genus) , in botany, a genus of

plants

PLANTS

, natural order Malvaceae (Mallows), containing about eighty species, and widely distributed in the tropics. They are free-growing shrubs with showy

bell

-shaped

flowers

FLOWERS, ARTIFICIAL

, and are favourite greenhouse

plants

PLANTS

. They may be grown outside in England during the summer months, but a few degrees of

frost

FROST (a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch, vorst, Ger. Frost, from the common Teutonic verb meaning " to freeze," Dutch, vriezcn, Ger. frieren; the Indo-
European
- EUROPEAN
root is seen in Lat. pruina, hoar-frost, cf. prurire, to itch, burn, pruna, burning coal, Sans
FROST,
WILLIAM
EDWARD (1810–1877)

is fatal to them. They are readily propagated from cuttings taken in the

spring

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger.
springer
- SPRINGER (Fr. rein)
- SPRINGER, ANTON HEINRICH (1825–1891)
, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

or at the end of the summer. A large number of horticultural varieties have been developed by hybridization, some of which have a variegated foliage.

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