Talk:Mirabilis jalapa

Carl Correns did use the variegated four o'clock plants to study cytoplasmic inheritance, but i'm not entirely sure that they were used to study incomplete dominance. please could the original author clarify that they were used to study incomplete dominance.

I believe it's called oshiroibana (おしろい花) in Japan, is this correct? Shinobu 13:15, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

It turns out I was correct. Shinobu (talk) 05:01, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

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 * Found refs for food, herbal medicine and other use, so tag is correct. Julia Rossi (talk) 08:06, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Photo orientation
Excuse me mentioning it but the picture in this article seems to be upside down. The flower and leaves look much more normal if the picture is inverted. I do not have the skill to remedy the problem but I wonder if this little issue could be addressed. With respect Richard Avery (talk) 18:24, 29 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Checking the detail against a full pic, it seems fine. It's not a trailer or downward form, but the leaves and flowers radiate in all directions. Julia Rossi (talk) 21:20, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Seeds
The article states that the seeds can be used as a substitute for pepper. On another site it says that the seeds are extremely poisonous. I think this needs to be clarified before someone accidentally gets poisioned.

The link is here: http://www.gardenfairy.com/garden/mirabilis.htm


 * Thanks for the headsup, RayLoi12, some say it's the leaves for pepper, and the 30,500 hits for poisonous is the decider so I removed it. Julia Rossi (talk) 23:36, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Cultivation
From experience with growing these plants in my own garden for many years, I can attest that they are perennial in protected areas in USDA Zone 8A, North Texas (Dallas area), and they also do self seed very prolifically. I have several mature plants that have faithfully returned every spring for 8 years. The plants are mulched mainly to protect them from our very hot summers. They are deciduous and go through winter dormancy, dying back to the ground with hard frost, but they have always come back. In this period, we have had winter nights well down in the teens and on rare occasions, the upper single digits F., as well as summer days that have pushed 110 degrees F. We have had snow, ice storms, drought, flooding rains, hailstorms, and all other manner of extreme weather, yet the plants are doing very well and continue to flower and seed. This is true of other plantings in this area, and does not seem to be dependent on color type. Howeer, the pink variety is the most popular type in this area though I also have seen many other colors. Could the section which includes the perennial zones be modified to reflect these zones? 108.217.49.112 (talk) 14:03, 12 June 2012 (UTC) kf9as

Flower botany
In this article they have noted that the flower is made up of pigmented calyx. Then what about five small, green leafy structure below the pigmented calyx and what about the corolla and where is it. I think the statement is wrong Delince.samuel (talk) 07:49, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

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