Honey nectar plants. Edible fruit, ornamental.

Annual herb up to 2 m. tall; stems succulent, setulose. Leaf-lamina up to 25 × 25 cm., suborbicular in outline, palmatifid, -lobed or -sect, sparsely to densely setulose or setose-pilose on both surfaces especially on the nerves, margins serrate, base cuneate to cordate; petiole up to 30 cm. long; stipules up to 15 mm. long, filiform, densely pilose. Flowers up to 8 cm. in diam., yellow with purple centre; peduncle 1–4 cm. long, stout, thickened in fruit. Epicalyx of 10–12 bracts; bracts up to 25 × 2·5 mm., narrowly linear-triangular, caducous. Calyx 3–4 cm. long, with 5 short linear teeth. Petals up to 7–8 cm. long. Staminal tube 12–20 mm. long; free parts of filaments up to 0·5 mm. long. Style projecting up to 1 mm. beyond the staminal tube. Capsule up to 14 cm. long, ellipsoid to very narrowly ellipsoid, at first appressed-setose and pubescent, later glabrescent. Seeds 5 × 4 mm., depressed-globose, slightly humped, with concentric lines of minute stellate hairs or scales and sometimes pilose. Flowering from May-October.

Cultivated places, farms and homes.