Chinese Lantern

Chinese Lantern, Flowering Maple
Commonly known as the Flowering Maple, these tropical and semi-tropical shrubs or plants are prized for their rapid growth and plentiful, long-lasting blossoms. Some species have maple-like leaves and shape.

They're sometimes called Chinese lantern plants because of the shape of the drooping papery flowers. You can expect the big, bell-shaped flowers of red, pink, orange, yellow or peach to cover flowering maples from spring through fall.

Chinese lantern fruit capsules in late summer are more colorful than those of K. paniculata, goldenrain tree. Several grow in the large lawn of Willis Court at Rains Houses, but they are not thriving.

Chinese lantern (Abutilon x hybridum) cultivar (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
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Chinese lantern (Abutilon x hybridum) cultivar (Photo: Sheldon Navie) ...

The related Chinese lantern (P. alkekengi) is grown for the attractive husks that are used in dried arrangements.
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Abutilon x hybridum (Flowering Maple, Weeping Maple,Chinese Lantern, Family: Malvaceae)
Acacia auriculiformis (Darwin Black Wattle, Ear Pod Wattle, Family: Mimosoideae / Mimosaceae) ...

Chinese Lantern Ground Cherry
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Chrysopsis camporum Heterotheca camporum
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Maple, Variagated Flowering (Variegated Chinese Lantern Plant)
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Marsh Mallow (Rose Mallow)
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Other Malvaceae species in garden culture include Abutilon, the Chinese lantern or flowering maple, elegant in both leaf and flower and well-adapted to mild and temperate gardens; Alcea rosea (syn Althaea rosea), the popular hollyhock; ...

A Question: What are the uncommon features between Golden Rain Tree and Chinese lanterns?
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aka, Chinese Lanterns
"Flowering" Maple Bush no kidding. This thing had four inches of sudden snowfall smash it flat (in 2001).

Physalis alkekengi The Chinese Lantern flower - and what a spreader! Campanula persicifolia Throw too few flowers.
Polygonum cuspidatum Spreads and spreads like mad.

The Abutilon is also commonly known as a Chinese bellflower or a Chinese lantern.
The blooming season for most Abutilons is from April through June, but they will often flower periodically through the winter as well.

Orange Peel Clematis (C. tangutica) Small (2- to 4-inch) rich yellow blossoms of this clematis hang like little Chinese lanterns on stiff upright stems. After flowering, fuzzy silver seedpods hang on through winter.

Fruiting Habits:
Large clusters of two-inch long bright pink capsules with papery texture: "Chinese lanterns".
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Cherry-like, green-brown berries are encased within green or black-mottled calyces. Branches of the mature Chinese lantern-style fruits can be dried and used for winter decoration
Height to 1.2m (4ft), spread to 1m (3¼ft) ...

Finally, I emerged with a sultry harlot of a bougainvillea, curvaceous, serpentine, with papery yellow blossoms like tiny Chinese lanterns. Framed against the frozen landscape, it looked exotic. Exotic enough that I secretly named her Carlotta.

See also: Green, May, Orange, Maple, Koelreuteria