Beehind <<>> Hollyhock Pollen On Honeybee <<>> IMG_0141 - Version 2
These pink hollyhocks, althea rosea, with honeybee shots are straight out of the camera (SOOC) with no editing, cropping, or processing of any kind.
Alcea rosea Linnaeus — common hollyhock
The climate here in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona and northern Mexico is similar to the Negev, perhaps Beersheva, in Israel. If you want to grow them all summer, I suggest you pick a spot that gets shade in the afternoon. And, if you live in the desert, water them every day! That's crucial! I think I grew them in Rehovot, many years ago. My garden there had sun and lots of shade.
Care of hollyhocks:
www.gardenguides.com/81608-care-hollyhock.html
Hollyhocks were brought back from China to Massachusetts, USA, on the yankee clipper ships. Marblehead Mass is famous for its hollyhocks. They have been introduced everywhere in the US.
Flora of China:
www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=2...
1. Alcea rosea Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 687. 1753.
蜀葵 shu kui
Althaea rosea (Linnaeus) Cavanilles; A. rosea var. sinensis (Cavanilles) S. Y. Hu; A. sinensis Cavanilles.
Herbs biennial, erect, to 2(-3) m tall; stem densely hirsute. Stipules ovate, ca. 8 mm, apically 3-lobed; petiole 5-15 cm, stellate hirsute; leaf blade nearly orbicular, palmately 5-7-lobed or crenate-angled, 6-16 cm in diam., papery, abaxially long stellate hirsute or stellate tomentose, adaxially sparsely stellate pilose, lobes triangular or rounded, central lobe ca. 3 × 4-6 cm. Flowers solitary or fascicled, aggregated into a terminal, spikelike inflorescence. Bracts foliaceous. Pedicel ca. 5 mm, 8-10 mm in fruit, stellate hirsute. Epicalyx cup-shaped, usually 6- or 7-lobed, 8-10 mm, densely stellate hirsute, lobes ovate-lanceolate. Calyx campanulate, 2-3 cm in diam., lobes ovate-triangular, 1.2-1.5 cm, densely stellate hirsute. Corolla red, purple, white, pink, yellow, or black-purple, 6-10 cm in diam., sometimes double; petals obovate-triangular, ca. 4 cm, base attenuate, claw tipped with long thin hairs, apex emarginate. Staminal column glabrous, ca. 2 cm; filaments ca. 2 mm. Style branches many, puberulent. Schizocarp disk-shaped, ca. 2 cm in diam., puberulent; mericarps many, nearly orbicular, longitudinally grooved. Fl. Feb-Aug.
● Cultivated. Throughout China [widely introduced throughout temperate regions].
Alcea rosea originated in the SW provinces of China and has been grown in Europe since at least the 15th century. It is cultivated as an
ornamental and is used medicinally. It is not known from any truly wild situations.
Beehind <<>> Hollyhock Pollen On Honeybee <<>> IMG_0141 - Version 2
These pink hollyhocks, althea rosea, with honeybee shots are straight out of the camera (SOOC) with no editing, cropping, or processing of any kind.
Alcea rosea Linnaeus — common hollyhock
The climate here in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona and northern Mexico is similar to the Negev, perhaps Beersheva, in Israel. If you want to grow them all summer, I suggest you pick a spot that gets shade in the afternoon. And, if you live in the desert, water them every day! That's crucial! I think I grew them in Rehovot, many years ago. My garden there had sun and lots of shade.
Care of hollyhocks:
www.gardenguides.com/81608-care-hollyhock.html
Hollyhocks were brought back from China to Massachusetts, USA, on the yankee clipper ships. Marblehead Mass is famous for its hollyhocks. They have been introduced everywhere in the US.
Flora of China:
www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=2...
1. Alcea rosea Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 687. 1753.
蜀葵 shu kui
Althaea rosea (Linnaeus) Cavanilles; A. rosea var. sinensis (Cavanilles) S. Y. Hu; A. sinensis Cavanilles.
Herbs biennial, erect, to 2(-3) m tall; stem densely hirsute. Stipules ovate, ca. 8 mm, apically 3-lobed; petiole 5-15 cm, stellate hirsute; leaf blade nearly orbicular, palmately 5-7-lobed or crenate-angled, 6-16 cm in diam., papery, abaxially long stellate hirsute or stellate tomentose, adaxially sparsely stellate pilose, lobes triangular or rounded, central lobe ca. 3 × 4-6 cm. Flowers solitary or fascicled, aggregated into a terminal, spikelike inflorescence. Bracts foliaceous. Pedicel ca. 5 mm, 8-10 mm in fruit, stellate hirsute. Epicalyx cup-shaped, usually 6- or 7-lobed, 8-10 mm, densely stellate hirsute, lobes ovate-lanceolate. Calyx campanulate, 2-3 cm in diam., lobes ovate-triangular, 1.2-1.5 cm, densely stellate hirsute. Corolla red, purple, white, pink, yellow, or black-purple, 6-10 cm in diam., sometimes double; petals obovate-triangular, ca. 4 cm, base attenuate, claw tipped with long thin hairs, apex emarginate. Staminal column glabrous, ca. 2 cm; filaments ca. 2 mm. Style branches many, puberulent. Schizocarp disk-shaped, ca. 2 cm in diam., puberulent; mericarps many, nearly orbicular, longitudinally grooved. Fl. Feb-Aug.
● Cultivated. Throughout China [widely introduced throughout temperate regions].
Alcea rosea originated in the SW provinces of China and has been grown in Europe since at least the 15th century. It is cultivated as an
ornamental and is used medicinally. It is not known from any truly wild situations.