1) Andersen Hort. Lib., "Source List of Plants and Seeds", 4th ed.

2) RHS, "Plant Finder 1996/97".

3) Wyman's, "Gardening Encyclopedia", 2nd ed. 1986.

4) Sunset, "Western Garden Book"

5) Glasshouse Nursery (1-800-837-2142) unpublished notes on private collection. Plants not in catalog.

6) Kim, Hyeon-Hye "On Polarity Responses of Hibiscus syriacus..." Masters Thesis 1993. 49p.

Ms. Kim Hyeon Hye
Shizuoka University
Fac. of Agriculture
Dept. of Biological Science
836 Ohya, Shizuoka 422, JAPAN
Tel&Fax: +81-54-288-7571
E-mail: khh@agr.shizuoka.ac.jp
Home page: http://abpc19.agr.shizuoka.ac.jp/

Prof. Dr. Do-Yi Yeam
Department of Horticulture
College of Agriculture & Life Sciences
Seoul National University
103 Seodun, Kwonsun
Suwon 441-744, KOREA

9) (Arnold Arboretum) Port, Kyle. unpublished correspondence.

10) (Notcutts Nurs.) Dickings, Ivan. Oct. 1996. unpublished letter on UK National Collection.

Ivan Dickings
Notcutts Nurseries
Woodbridge, Suffolk IP 12 4AF
England
Tel: (0394) 383344
Fax: (0394) 385460

    This was a web version of an exhibit in Korea. No longer online.

12) Scheda Botanica. (in Italian) Internet pages http://www.promonet.it/Cespevi/dat/hissange.htm

13) (Chollipo Arboretum) Kihun Song, unpublished correspondence.

Chollipo Arboretum
344-16 Yohui-Dong
Sodaemun-ku
Seoul 120-113 Korea

15) (IRA Woody Plants) Dr. Mark Tebbitt, unpublished correspondence.

16) (Notcutts Nursery) Notcutts Book of Plants. Enlarged Edition. 1994.

17) Van Huylenbroeck, Dr. ir. Johan, unpublished correspondence.

Dr.ir Johan Van Huylenbroeck
Department of Plant Genetics and Breeding (DvP), CLO-Gent
Caritasstraat 21, B-9090 Melle
Belgium
Tel: +32 9 25210 52
Fax: +32 9 252 50 75
E-mail: j.vanhuylenbroeck@clo.fgov.be

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1) Bean, W.K. 1970-1988. Trees and Shrubs hardy in the British Isles. 4 vol.

2) Grootendorst, H.J. 1968. Hibiscus syriacus. Dendroflora 5:23-28.

3) Dariev AS, Vasil'ev BR, Kolodyazhnyi SF. 1982. The characters of leaf structure as applied for the systematics of the tribe Hibisceae (Malvaceae). Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Lenengrad) 67(8):1036-1046.

4) Khushk MT, Vaughan JG. 1987. Seed structure in relation to the taxonomy of the Hibisceae (Hibiscus and Lagunaria). Pakistan J. Bot. 18(2):309-319.

5) Korean Hibiscus Research Society, ed. 1993. Summary of current researches on rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus L.).63pp.

6) Takahashi M, Kouchi J. 1988. Ontogenetic development of spinous exine in Hybiscus syriacus (Malvaceae). Amer. J. Bot. 75(10):1549-1558.

7) American Hibiscus Society, Publication Number 6. D. R. Egolf. Hibiscus syriacus.

8) Krussmann, G. 1984-1986. Manual of Cultivated Broad-Leaved Trees & Shrubs. Portland, Oregon: Timber Press.

9) Wyman, D. 1958. The shrub altheas. Arnoldia  18:45-51.

10) Huttleston, D. G. Cultivar registration of unassigned woody  ornamentals. HortScience 21:361-366 [1986], 23:454-456 [1988], 25:616-617  [1990], and 26:475-476 [1991]