Anisodontea capensis 'Strybing Beauty' is a compact South African shrub in the mallow family (Malvaceae), selected at Strybing Arboretum — now San Francisco Botanical Garden — in Golden Gate Park. It produces a near-continuous succession of small, five-petaled pink flowers with dark magenta veining from the center across most of the year in frost-free climates, making it among the longest-blooming shrubs available for warm-winter gardens.
It establishes quickly in well-drained soil and tolerates considerable drought once rooted. Without periodic pruning, stems become woody and flowering thins; cutting back by roughly one-third after any heavy flush maintains dense, productive growth. In zone 9, planting against a south-facing wall improves cold survivability. Container growing allows gardeners in cooler climates to overwinter specimens indoors. Hummingbirds and bees are regular visitors throughout the long flowering period.