This is my post for #freewriters 2265 prompt epicalyx hosted by @mariannewest
Last year I was walking along the river and saw an old hibiscus plant, I knew that when I was a child there was an old green colored house there. I took some cutting from the plant so I could give it new life.
I took the cutting home and clipped off the part where I broke it from the plant. I put some soil in a one gallon pot and set it in the shady part of our weed mat where we have our garden. I let it root and once I saw I could pull it from the pot without the soil breaking apart, I planted it by our front gate.
This is the plant this year, it does not have many flowers right now. They are not the type of hibiscus that opens into a beautiful flower but it is still beautiful to me. They call it a Turks Cap Hibiscus and I am guessing the small leaves at the base of the flower are the epicalyx. To tell the truth, I had no clue as to what this prompt meant or how to pronounce it. I still can not pronounce it I try to say EPIC-AL-??, How do you say YZ? I came up with yiz. So it would be EPIC-AL-YIZ, I still can not say it. Can you?
This is my Red Hot Hibiscus, I do not know which one I prefer, maybe I will plant this one next to the Turks Cap.