What with the cool spring I've been rather tardy in sowing seed this year, but I've got round to sowing 15 batches of Eumalvas.
1)
Malva australiana, of a strain originally collected in New South Wales
2)
Malva australiana, of a strain originally collected in Western Australia, or at least sold by a West Australian seed company.
3)
Malva pusilla, of a strain originally collected in Champaign, Illinois
4)
Malva parviflora, of a strain originally collected in Victoria, Australia
5)
Malva nicaeensis
6)
Malva nicaeensis (a pale flowered form)
7)
Malva sylvestris Hinsley 53 [1] x
linnaei Davis
s.n. (strain Brythone)
8)
Malva sylvestris Hinsley 53 [1] x
linnaei Davis
s.n. (strain P/1)
9)
Malva arborea [3] 'Variegata' x
australiana
10)
Malva arborea 'Variegata' x
durieui
11)
Malva arborea 'Variegata' x
linnaei Davis
s.n. (strain P/3)
12)
Malva arborea Davis
s.n. [2] x
sylvestris Hinsley 60 [4]
13)
Malva sylvestris 'Mystic Merlin' x
durieui
14)
Malva sylvestris 'Mystic Merlin' x
durieui
15)
Malva sylvestris 'Mystic Merlin' x
durieui
Numbers 7-9 and 13-15 are old batches of seed from which hybrid plants have been successfully raised in past years. Numbers 9-12 are seed from last year's attempts to produce hybrids and may turn out to be just Malva arborea - while Malva arborea is not mechanically self-compatible in the way the small-flowered speciesa are, previous attempts to produce hybrids using this as the seed parent have produced Malva arborea.
[1] Hinsley 53 was a small-flowered, nearly male-sterile, selection of
Malva sylvestris 'Mystic Merlin'.
[2] collected in Cornwall
[3] better known as
Lavatera arborea
[4] Hinsley 60 is a hybrid between a wild-collection (Hinsley 3), and a cultivated form thought to be 'Bibor Felho'.
