Comments
 | 2:37am May 2 2008ashdad said: Beautiful hibiscus bud! |
 | 10:47am May 2 2008senna3 said: Very beautiful! |
 | 11:50am May 2 2008ohhahhwho said: Hawaii seems to be blooming... |
 | 7:29pm May 2 2008SGKrebs said: this is the hibiscus used in tea, right? |
 | 9:26pm May 2 2008Haw59 said: (reply to comment #55016) Don't know about that. I will check on it. |
| 4:49am May 3 2008Haw59 said: (reply to comment #55016) This is what my aunt had to say:
It is the same family of plants (malvacea) but our local hibiscus are Hibiscus chinensis and the well known hibiscus tea variety from Mexico, South America and Jamaica is Hibiscus sabdariffa - Do not know if we have it here in Hawaii. The H. sabdariffa flowers look more like what we call hao. The Chinese used parts of the H. chinensis flowers for medicinal purposes (herbal remedy). |
