Hibiscus Flowers Composition

Hibiscus is a plant genus in the subfamily Malvoideae within the mallow family (Malvaceae). The species thrive mainly in subtropical to tropical areas of the world. The Hibiscus species grow as annual to perennial herbaceous plants, semishrubs, shrubs and trees. The usually alternate stem leaves are divided into petiole and leaf blade. The mostly simple leaf blades are lobed in some species. Stipules are present. The flowers are usually solitary in the leaf axils, rarely together in inflorescences. The hermaphrodite flowers are radially symmetrical and pentate. There is usually an outer calyx, which may have five or more lobes. The five sepals are usually fused in a bell shape. The five petals may be of a wide variety of colors.

In everyday language, a flower refers either to a flowering plant that "produces" larger, eye-catching blossoms, or to a "single blossom of a flower with a stem", or is used as a short form for flowering vine. It is often used as an ornament, e.g. as a cut flower in a bouquet, a floral wreath or a floral arrangement. In the visual arts, flowers as a floral motif are a frequently depicted theme. In botany, on the other hand, the term flower is clearly defined and is separated in particular from the term blossom. While a flower (as a single flower or inflorescence) is defined by its function in pollination, a blossom (as a stunted shoot with metamorphosed leaves) is a term clearly defined by morphology.

A flower is the pollination-biological unit of flowering plants. It is its task to attract pollinators or it forms a technical-functional unit. Flower is therefore an ecologically-functionally defined term. Thus, flowers pollinated by animals are classified according to their pollinators, such as the bird flowers or the beetle flowers. A flower is defined as a shoot of limited growth in the service of sexual reproduction. Its structure is clearly divided into perianth, stamens and carpels. Tulip or rose flowers are good examples of this. They do not have to be conspicuously built or coloured; grasses also have flowers.