Hibiscus oculiroseus Britton
, J. New York Bot. Gard. 4(48): 219 (-220; t. 18) (1903).- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:121990-2
- Publication
- Journal of the New York Botanical Garden. Lancaster, PA
- Collation
- 4(48): 219 (-220; t. 18)
- Date of Publication
- Dec 1903
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Malvaceae
Type Information
- Distribution Of Types
- New Jersey (Northeastern U.S.A., Northern America)
Remarks
'The plant was introduced into cultivation by Mr. Wm. F. Bassett, of Hammonton, N. ]., and the circumstances of its discovery are recorded in the following extracts from a letter written by him to Mr. Geo. V. Nash: Replying to your queries, I found the first plant of our Hibiscus Crimson Eye in a triangular marsh, with the N. J. & Seashore Railroad on one side and public roads on the other two, a little below Absecon Railroad Station, some years ago (probably 20 or more years, I made no record, and do not recollect). As you may know, Hibiscus Moscheutos makes roots from the new stems and I pulled two of these while in flower and cut bark and wrapped the roots, bringing them home in my travelling bag. They were planted at some distance from any others and very unexpectedly I found them to come true from seed and we have raised and sold a great many thousands of them. Some three or four years since, in an excursion to Tuckahoe we found that a large per cent- of the Hibiscus Moscheutos which were growing in the marshes there (perhaps one half) were of the same color as our Crimson Eye but most of them had smaller flowers. For some years after I first got up a stock of it I found no sale for it but my oldest son by persistent advertising succeeded in creating a demand and it is now one of the standard hardy plants with increasing sale.'