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Pink Ball Shrub
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Update time: 2011-03-02
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Common Name:   Pink-Ball

Botanical Name:  Dombeya Wallichii

Family:  Sterculiaceae

Plant Type:  Large evergreen shrub.

Origin: Madagascar

 

The Pink-Ball is a spectacularly large shrub with large heart-shaped leaves and dense heads of little pink flowers which hang from foot long stems. The plant is native to Madagascar, but widely grown as a large garden shrub in Florida. Of the family Sterculiaceae it is cultivated for its beautiful pendulous bright pink flower-balls.They produce large pink clusters of flowers that resemble balls or umbels to 12" across.

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