Rose of Sharon PicturesRose of Sharon pictures from Virginia and West Virginia for you to enjoy and share. The pictures on this page were taken at my sister's in VA and my Mom's in WVA. I hope you enjoy these pictures. Feel free to print, and share. If you want to use them on your own website please feel free to do so. All I ask is that you link back to us. I must say when I did research on the Rose of Sharon, I found the information available a bit confusing. It seems the Rose of Sharon is related to the Hibiscus family. When you look at hibiscus flowers and compare them to the rose of sharon you can see the resemblance. As a matter of fact it is hard to tell some of them apart. I have grown Hibiscus in pots in my home and they are a beautiful flower. The difference I think in the two is that the Hibiscus does not grow as large as the Rose of Sharon can.
The Rose of Sharon Picture that I call mutated is actually a double Rose of Sharon. This is something that greatly resembles the double hibiscus. I labeled the flower mutated because the flowers in picture #7 and #1 appear to be growing on the same bush. Numbers 3 and 5 of the rose of sharon pictures in the gallery are also part of that same bush. One exception to this is Rose of Sharon Picture number 6. This is a group of rose hips I found growing on a wild rose of sharon bush as we walked the Riverwalk park in St. Charles. I only knew this was a Rose of Sharon by the shape of the leaves and one lone white flower. History of Rose of Sharon The Rose of Sharon is a flower that is mentioned in the English language translations of the Bible. The name first appears in the King James version of the bible in 1611. According to the translation committee of the New Revised Standard Version, “Rose of Sharon” is a mistranslation of the Hebrew word for “crocus”. Today, the name is also commonly applied to two different plants, neither of which is likely to have been the plant from the Bible: · Hypericum calycinum, an evergreen flowering shrub native to southeast Europe and southwest Asia, and the plant generally referred to in British and Australian English as “Rose of Sharon”; and · Hibiscus syriacus, a deciduous flowering shrub native to east Asia, the plant generally referred to in American English as “Rose of Sharon” and the national flower of South Korea. Return to Pictures of Roses from Rose of Sharon Pictures.
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