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Lissa, Welcome aboard the Garden Helpers Forum!! Hope you stick around and enjoy the bunch of nice people we have here!!! I have a question for you though??? Is flowering maple the same as a chinese lantern?? I have chinese lanterns and they are not a flowering maple that I know of?????????????? (to me they are two seperate plants)???????? They are a plant, that spreads profusely, have white flowers, turn into a green ballon like and eventually turn orange and look like a lanterns??? The only place I remember seeing the flowering maple for sale is on the QVC shopping channel in the spring time when Spring Hill and Roberta's Exotic's and Garden of Merit, etc. are on. Say around Feb., March or April time.????? And that was a very pretty plant, seemed multi colored and the flower reminded me of a ???????? hibiscus, hollyhock or something of the likes, it was a peach color (or salmon like), very pretty flower.
Hope that helps!!
You'll find a bunch of really nice gardeners here, all with great advice!!! Hope you'll stick around! Weezie
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Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it. - Bible - Hebrews 13:2
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Lissa, Your right there is a flowering maple called (chinese lantern ) i have 3 of them..I got at walmart during spring time.. I have 2 red ones and a yellow one.Looked them up here exactly what i have..Wish i could send you some ..Seen some more today when i went out.. Weezie they do look kinda like a hibiscus..Much smaller leaves and flowers.. Lissa ,if i see where you can get seeds will send to u..Sorry not much help.
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Ann, That is why I want to learn the latin names so bad. Some day I will, I'll find place that gives (verbal) lessons or something. Different plants called the same name. I did see the plant Lissa's talking about, very cute. Yes, smaller flowers, they looked to me like a miniature hibiscus. Thanks for clearing it up..... I've always said, it only takes one gardener to solve an plaguing question!!! And then we all know the answer...... Weezie
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Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it. - Bible - Hebrews 13:2
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