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Abutilon indicum
Abutilon indicum (Indian Abutilon, Indian Mallow; is a small shrub in the Malvaceae family, native to tropic and subtropical regions and sometimes cultivated as an ornamental. This plant is often used as a medicinal plant and is considered invasive on certain tropical islands.
Growing wild in open place near my house in Tamil Nadu, India.
@Braulio Alejandro Rivas Tapia, Hmm, hasn't really helped with the ID, we have 2 possible species that seem to look the same!
Yea it took me a long time to find a match, and even longer to find a name for it. I hope you can figure it out!
The only place I found a common name was on someones photo on flickr, and she had said it was a local name. I thought I had put that link on my suggestion, but maybe not since it didn't show.
I am not definite about it, it was just something I had found through an intensive google search. I'm not sure why there would be two different species names, unless it usedo be grouped with another species and they recently split it and some sites have not updated it. Might be something you can see if you can find why there are two names
thanks Ashley for the ID. Local in...? Looking at Google images, the same flower is called both Abutilon hirtum and Abutilon indicum. Are you definite about it being Abutilon hirtum? I couldn't really see the difference.
The common name is just a local name I found, it might be called something different though
@ alice. Yes it looks like the Rose of Sharon, but I couldn't find anything that looks similar. RoS doesn't seem to have those sort of stamens, either.
Spotted on Dec 18, 2012
Submitted on Dec 20, 2012
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