A tall woody-stemmed European mallow of coastal regions.
花葵
Lavatera arborea, family Malvaceae
Example sentencesExamples
By August everything is tangled up, as the tree mallows incline their branches through the rest.
Now, thanks to hundreds of volunteers who helped remove tree mallow that had grown over the entrances to the puffins’ burrows, the birds are once again raising families on the island.
We marked out a little bed across the whole width of the allotment and planted tree mallows and perennial climbing wallflowers in them - staking our claim, I suppose.
The puffins themselves assist in the establishment of tree mallow, which needs a fertile soil to establish itself.
I guess the key phrase here is short-lived, although tree mallows provide a lot of bang for the buck, and are easy to propagate.