This should be a Hibiscus with one of the smallest flowers. Tiny Flower Hibiscus
is a perennial with branched stems branched, stiff, erect, up to 40-100 cm.
Leaves with stalk up
to 1.2 cm, variable in size and shape, 0.5-2.5 x 0.5-3.5 cm, triangular or
oval with rounded base, with toothed edges and pointed tips. Flowers white,
0.5 cm across, on stalks up to 3 cm, only open in direct sunlight. Fruit a
spherical capsule, 1 cm across. Seeds densely covered with white hairs.
Flowering Jan.-May. Tiny Flower Hibiscus is native to Tropical Africa,
Arabia, India and Pakistan.
Identification credit: Navendu Page & Pradip Krishen
Photographed in Garden of Five Senses, Delhi.
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