About
This semi-evergreen shrub typically reaches a height of about 2 meters, featuring upright branches that have a gentle arch. The foliage consists of soft leaves resembling those of a maple. From spring through autumn, it produces nodding, bell-shaped blooms that are predominantly yellow with prominent red veins.
About the genus
Abutilon encompasses a variety of growth forms, including evergreen and deciduous shrubs, trees, perennials, and annuals. The foliage can be either simple or palmately lobed, and the flowers are typically bell-shaped or bowl-shaped, frequently featuring prominent stamens.
Growing conditions
- Sunlight
- Full sun
- Soil type
- Loam, Sand
- Soil pH
- Acid, Alkaline, Neutral
- Soil moisture
- Moist but well-drained, Well-drained
- Aspect
- South-facing, West-facing
- Exposure
- Sheltered
- UK hardiness
- H3
Plant details
- Plant type
- Conservatory Greenhouse, Shrubs
- Habit
- Bushy
- Foliage
- Semi evergreen
- Height
- 1.5-2.5 metres
- Spread
- 1-1.5 metres
- Time to full height
- 5-10 years
- Suggested uses
- City and courtyard gardens, Mediterranean climate plants, Patio and container plants
Care notes
- Cultivation
- Outdoors grow in free-draining soil in a sheltered, sunny position, such as against a warm wall, and provide winter protection. Under glass grow in peat-free, loam-based potting compost in full light. Water freely when in growth and apply a balanced liquid fertiliser monthy. Keep barely moist in winter. Pots can be stood outdoors in summer
- Pruning
- Pruning group 9 or pruning group 13 for wall trained specimens
- Propagation
- Propagate by softwood cuttings in spring
- Pest resistance
- May be susceptible to glasshouse whitefly, glasshouse red spider mite, mealybugs and scale insects
- Disease resistance
- May be susceptible to honey fungus (rarely) or a virus