Last modified: 2002-11-30 by ivan sache
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Several on-line catalogues for gardeners show a plant called Abutilon 'Drapeau Belge' (the name seems to be used only by French-speaking gardeners).
Abutilon 'Drapeau Belge' was bred (I guess by Belgian
horticulturists) from Abutilon megapotamicum Saint-Hilaire
(often misspelled as megapotanicum), an evergreen shrub of the
Malvaceae family, which was introduced in Europe from Brasil in 1864.
The plant is known in English as Chinese Lantern due to the
shape of its flowers, and in French as Erable
florifère [Flowering Maple] due to the shape of its
leaves.
A. megapotamicum has red and yellow flowers. The 'Drapeau Belge' cultivar has red-yellow-black flowers, which fit the (erroneous) description of the national flag in the Belgian Constitution.
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