Plants · La Saladita, Guerrero

Tricolor Hibiscus

Hibiscus rosa-sinensis

Spanish: Tulipán / Obelisco

Tricolor Hibiscus (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis)
Photographed by natacha71 on iNaturalist · taken in Habana, not near La Saladita

Hibiscus × rosa-sinensis, known colloquially as Chinese hibiscus, China rose, Hawaiian hibiscus, rose mallow and shoeblack plant, is a cultigen of tropical hibiscus, a flowering plant in the Hibisceae tribe of the family Malvaceae. It is an artificial hybrid created in cultivation in pre-European times by Polynesians in the west Pacific from the species Hibiscus cooperi and H. kaute. It is widely cultivated as an ornamental plant in the tropics and subtropics.

TaxonomyMagnoliopsida › Malvales › Malvaceae
Local recordsNot recorded by research-grade iNaturalist observations within about 50 km; listed from the site's curated guide
Global records70,521 on iNaturalist

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Cite as: “Tricolor Hibiscus (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis) at La Saladita”, La Saladita Field Guide, lasaladita.com/species/hibiscus-rosa-sinensis/, updated 2026-09-26. Observation counts and months come from iNaturalist research-grade records within about 50 km of 17.8375°N, 101.7606°W (the survey box also takes in Zihuatanejo, Ixtapa and Troncones); summary text from Wikipedia where present.