| Scientific Name: | Abutilon x hybridum |
| Common Name: | Chinese lantern, parlour maple, flowering maple |
| Family Name: | Malvaceae |
| Origin: | Garden origin, S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 10: (-1 to 4 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Shrub - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 1.3 - 2.0m x 1.0 - 1.5m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Round |
| Texture: | Coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract butterflies, Indoor plant, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | |
| Leaves: | Simple, Lobed, Alternate, Soft flexible, Palmate venation, Pubescent, Obovate, Ovate, Crenate, Dentate, Palmately lobed |
| Flowers: | Flowers clustered, White, Orange, Yellow, Pink, Red, Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep-Oct |
| Fruit: | Schizocarp, Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Brown, Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves usually lobed like most maples, blades about 15cm long; flowers cup-shaped, about 5cm wide; fruit rounded, capsule-like. | |