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 stigma, 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:

Seed Pod
The seed pod is a large berry inside the papery calyx.

Seed
The seeds are yellowish brown chips. There are many seeds in a seedpod.

Seedling
The seedling is large and fast-growing. The first true leaves are pointed, often with a dark stem.

Seed sowing and Germination
Spring: Seeds sown outside in spring germinated in a few days.

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	Seed Pod The seed pod is a large berry inside the papery calyx.
	Seed The seeds are yellowish brown chips. There are many seeds in a seedpod.
	Seedling The seedling is large and fast-growing. The first true leaves are pointed, often with a dark stem.
Seed sowing and Germination Spring: Seeds sown outside in spring germinated in a few days.