Autumn Leaves - Hibiscus Hamabo (Hardy Yellow Hibiscus) 浜朴（ハマボウ）の紅葉

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Hardy yellow hibiscuses are so lemon yellow in July and the leaves are so orange and red in December!

Something has happened and that devastated me (and still does). But beautiful colors in nature like the leaves in this photo always give me strength. I'm an atheist but currently, the beauty in nature is a kind of God for me.    

Autumn leaves - hardy yellow hibiscus　浜朴（ハマボウ）の紅葉

Hibiscus Hamabo (Hardy Yellow Hibiscus) 浜朴（ハマボウ）

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"You're feeling very sleepy....😪." I heard someone say this when looking at the center of the flower.  

These are hardy yellow hibiscuses (Hibiscus hamabo). The stark contrast between the lemon yellow and the dark red always catches my eye. I wanted to photograph the open yellow flowers but I see them only in the early morning, so the flowers are always half open😂.    

Hibiscus hamabo　浜朴

Hardy yellow hibiscus　ハマボウ

Hibiscus Hamabo 浜朴（ハマボウ）

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Hibiscuses in various colors have started to bloom in my neighborhood and this is my favorite, Hibiscus hamabo or hardy yellow hibiscus. I love the stark contrast between its lemon yellow petals and deep red flower center. (And don't forget that in autumn the leaves beautifully turn yellow, red and reddish purple!)

Hibiscus hamabo 浜朴

Hibiscus Hamabo 浜朴（ハマボウ）

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This is hibiscus hamabo. Its heart-shaped green, yellow, orange, red, and purple leaves are so beautiful!

Hibiscus hamabo is cold and salt tolerant, but despite its hardy nature, it entertains people with the lemon yellow flowers with a dark red center in July and August while in autumn with such colorful autumn leaves.  

Hibiscus hamabo is seen along the coast and rivers across Japan, but the plant has been losing the habitat because of improvements to watercourses. Dozens of prefectures have designated the yellow hibiscus as an endangered species. 

Hibiscus hamabo 浜朴

Hibiscus hamabo ハマボウ

Hibiscus Hamabo 浜朴（ハマボウ）

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This is hibiscus hamabo. The yellow and red contrast is so vivid!! 

Hibiscuses are now in full bloom across Japan, but they're so diverse in the color and flower size that hibiscus hamabo is completely different from hibiscus moscheutos (swamp rose-mallow) I wrote about several days ago. Hibiscus hamabo is bright lemon yellow and the flowers I saw were all less than 10 cm in diameter while swamp rose-mallow is pink or red, and HUGE like an electric fan😆!! 

You would imagine nothing sad about such beautiful flowers. I didn't either until I learned that hibiscus hamabo is on the verge of extinction or already extinct in some prefectures in Japan. The flower is so bright, but now I can't see hibiscus hamabo without feeling "mono no aware" or a "sense of ephemerality." 

Hibiscus hamabo 浜朴

Four Hibiscuses - Hamabo, Rosa-Sinensis, Moscheutos, Syriacus ４つのハイビスカス

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I wrote about hibiscus moscheutos (or swamp rose mallow) and hibiscus syriacus (or Korean rose) a few days ago. I had already seen this yellow flower, but didn't realize that it was another hibiscus, hibiscus hamabo.

Hibiscus hamabo ハマボウ

Then, I found the red hibiscus rosa-sinensis or Chinese hibiscus below, the only hibiscus called "hibiscus" in Japan. It's so confusing that hibiscus hamabo, hibiscus rosa-sinensis, hibiscus monscheutos and hibiscus syriacus are not called hibiscus in Japan!! 

Hibiscus rosa-sinensis or Chinese hibiscus
いわゆるハイビスカス

Stamens are on the tip of style
雄しべは花柱の先端

The difference between hibiscus rosa-sinensis (above) and hibiscus moscheutos (below) is where the stamens are attached. The stamens of hibiscus rosa-sinensis (above) are attached to the top of the style while those of hibiscus moscheutos (below) to a lower part of the style.

Hibiscus moscheutos
Stamens are attached to lower part of style
アメリカ芙蓉の雄しべは花柱の下の方

White hibiscus moscheutos 白のアメリカ芙蓉

Hibiscus moscheutos' bud
白のアメリカ芙蓉のつぼみ

Then, I found white, pale purple and bright pink hibiscus syriacus flowers below.

White hibiscus syriacus 白い木槿

Pale purple hibiscus syriacus 薄紫の木槿

Bright pink hibiscus syriacus 濃いピンクの木槿

I felt a little sad about the end of the hydrangea season, so the beginning of the hibiscus season got me excited!! 

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先日、２種類のハイビスカスについて書きました。といってもアメリカ芙蓉と木槿について。英語ではどちらもハイビスカスなんです。

更に、以前見た黄色のハマボウ、赤のハイビスカス（いわゆるハイビスカス）、そして白、薄紫、濃いピンクの木槿も、英語では全～部ハイビスカス。ということでまた書いちゃいました。

紫陽花が終わって寂しかったのですが、ハイビスカスでこんなに楽しめるなんて！ 嬉しい驚きです😉！

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