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  1. Plant of the Mallow family. Hibiscuses range
  2. from large herbaceous plants to trees.
  3. Popular as ornamental plants because of their
  4. brilliantly coloured red through to white
  5. bell-shaped flowers, they include Hibiscus
  6. syriacus and Hibiscus rosa-sinensis. Some
  7. tropical species are also useful: Hibiscus
  8. esculentus, of which the edible fruit is okra
  9. or lady's fingers; Hibiscus tiliaceus, which
  10. supplies timber and fibrous bark to South Sea
  11. islanders; and Hibiscus sabdariffa,
  12. cultivated in the W Indies and elsewhere for
  13. its fruit.
  14.