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The flower of the tree, known as Flor de Maga, is the official national flower of Puerto Rico. [8] Though this species is contained within the same family as Hibiscus and may sometimes be referred to as such in English, truly it belongs to a different genus and species from true hibiscus, and is more closely related to Cotton.
Flor de Maga: Thespesia grandiflora: 2019 [55] [56] Rhode Island: Violet: Viola: 1968 [57] [58] South Carolina: Yellow jessamine (state flower) Gelsemium sempervirens: 1924 [59] Goldenrod (state wildflower) Solidago altissima: 2003 [60] South Dakota: Pasque flower: Pulsatilla hirsutissima: 1903 [61] Tennessee: Iris (state cultivated flower ...
– Flor de maga [4] Marcgraviaceae. Marcgravia sintenisii Urb. Bejuco de palma, Bejuco de lira, Bejuco de rana, Lira del Yunque, Pegapalma; Melastomataceae
Thespesia grandiflora, the flor de Maga, a tree species and the official national flower of Puerto Rico; Thomasia grandiflora, the large-flowered thomasia, a small shrub species endemic to the southwest of Western Australia; Tibouchina grandiflora, a synonym of the flowering plant species Pleroma heteromallum
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It is also commonly known in Mexico as Flor de Mayo. P. rubra was declared the national flower of Nicaragua in 1971, where it is known as sacuanjoche. [8] In Spanish, frangipanis are also referred to as alhelí, alhelí cimarrón, and suche. [9] P. rubra entered Southeast Asia via the Manila galleons from Mexico to the Philippines in the 1560s.
Puerto Rico has many symbols, but only the Flor de Maga has been made official by the Government of Puerto Rico. [291] Other popular, traditional, or unofficial symbols of Puerto Rico are the Puerto Rican spindalis, the kapok tree, the coquí frog, the jíbaro, the Taíno Indian, and Cerro Las Tetas with its jíbaro culture monument. [292] [293]
Another record includes a 35-m-high specimen from the Chickasawhay District, De Soto National Forest, in Mississippi, which measured 17.75 ft (5.4 m) in circumference at breast height, from 1961, and a 30-m-tall tree from Baton Rouge, which reached 18 ft in circumference at breast height.