Plate 1 figs. a–f · 3 observations
This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.
Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.
Native range 40 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Angola | ANG | AFRICA |
| Botswana | BOT | |
| Burkina | BKN | |
| Cape Provinces | CPP | |
| Chad | CHA | |
| Djibouti | DJI | |
| Egypt | EGY | |
| Eritrea | ERI | |
| Eswatini | SWZ | |
| Ethiopia | ETH | |
| Free State | OFS | |
| Kenya | KEN | |
| KwaZulu-Natal | NAT | |
| Lesotho | LES | |
| Mali | MLI | |
| Mauritania | MTN | |
| Mozambique | MOZ | |
| Namibia | NAM | |
| Niger | NGR | |
| Northern Provinces | TVL | |
| Senegal | SEN | |
| Somalia | SOM | |
| St.Helena | STH | |
| Sudan-South Sudan | SUD | |
| Tanzania | TAN | |
| Uganda | UGA | |
| Zambia | ZAM | |
| Zimbabwe | ZIM | |
| New South Wales | NSW | AUSTRALASIA |
| Northern Territory | NTA | |
| Queensland | QLD | |
| South Australia | SOA | |
| Victoria | VIC | |
| Oman | OMA | ASIA-TEMPERATE |
| Saudi Arabia | SAU | |
| Sinai | SIN | |
| Yemen | YEM | |
| Assam | ASS | ASIA-TROPICAL |
| India | IND | |
| West Himalaya | WHM |
Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.
Where it actually grows measured, from 110 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | 3.2 °C | 6.5 °C | 10.9 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 24.5 °C | 28.9 °C | 31.7 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 449 mm | 751 mm | 1,159 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 38 mm | 101 mm | 152 mm |
It is found where winters are cool but frost is light or absent. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 110 research-grade observations of Hibiscus tridactylites that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.
This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.
We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.