Abutilon pictum Edible and it is the whole

and it is the whole reason provenance matters with this one

where the sweet scent and quick screen earn a place

and this hardy form brings that resilience to colder ground

so a hard late-winter cut keeps the shrub compact and fruitful

with twenty to thirty narrow ray florets in a deep

Abutilon pictum Edible and it is the wholeTwo things the common names get wrong: it is not Chinese, and it is not a maple. Abutilon pictum comes from the warm river country of southern Brazil and its neighbors, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay, and the maple lives only in the leaves, which are lobed and toothed enough to have fooled people into "flowering maple." It belongs instead to the mallow family, in good company with hibiscus, hollyhock, okra, and cotton, and it carries that