Hibiscus Rosa-sinensis

Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, known colloquially as the Chinese hibiscus, China rose and shoe flower, is an evergreen flowering shrub native to East Asia.

It is widely grown as an ornamental plant throughout the tropics and subtropics. The flowers are large, generally red in the original varieties, and firm, but generally lack any scent. Numerous varieties, cultivars, and hybrids are available, with flower colors ranging from white through yellow and orange to scarlet and shades of pink, with both single and double sets of petals. Despite their size and red hues attractive to nectar-feeding birds, they are not visited regularly by hummingbirds when grown in the Neotropics. Generalists, like the Sapphire-spangled Emerald, Amazilia lactea, or long-billed species, like the Stripe-breasted Starthroat, Heliomaster squamosus, are occasionally seen to visit it, however. In the subtropical and temperate Americas, hummingbirds are attracted to them on a regular basis.

Hibiscus rosa-sinensis was named by Carolus Linnaeus. Chinese usually call it zhū jǐn 朱槿, which literally means "vermilion hibiscus". And it has many other names in Chinese: fú sāng 扶桑, fó sāng 佛桑, chì jǐn 赤槿, sāng jǐn 桑槿, rì jí 日及, huā shàng huā 花上花, zhào diàn hóng 照殿紅, zhuàng yuán hóng 狀元紅, dà hóng huā 大紅花, and so on. It also has prominent presence in the various part of Indian subcontinent. It has several names in different languages,Jaswand in Marathi, Bengali: জবা (Jaba), Sembaruthi-செம்பருத்தி in Tamil, Hindi: गुड़हल, गुड़हर, अड़हुल, जपा, जवा कुसुम, Chemparathy - ചെമ്പരത്തി in Malayalam, Mondaro in Oriya,Wada Mal in Sinhala, Mamdaram (మందారం) in Telugu, Kembang Sepatu in Indonesia and Gumamela in Filipino.