JAPANESE HISBISCUS

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 452, 21 June 1937, Page 2

JAPANESE HISBISCUS

WHITE, PINK OR BLUE? Flower That Change Colour The prevailing colour of early spring flowers is yellow. The buttercup, daffodil, primrose, and early cowslip are examples. There are manycurious points about the colours of flowers. According to a list compiled by a botanist, of a thousand dif terent species of flowers, 287 are white, 223 yellow, 222 red, 144 blue 72 voilet, 36 green 12 orange, and 4 brown. The botanist speaks of two varieties of black, but it is generallyunderstood that there is no such thing as an absolutely black flower. More than one flower changes its colour during its period of blooming. Fof instanpq, the beautiful double flowers or the Misbiscus mu > bills are ’’■white on opening ir tue morning, becoming pink at noon, turn red at sunset, and at night fade to a bluish tint. The tree is a native- of Japan and China, but it grows also in the Indies, both East and West. The Chinese hydrangea has flowers w-hich are green when first opened, and chang later to a rose colour. Then there is Chiranthus muto bills; its bloom changes from yellow to orange, then to red, and ends by becoming a deep purple Even so common a flower as the Phlox it first blue and then pink, while the forget-me-not changes from a yellow tint to its true and beaut,.ul blue.