White Hibiscus!

I found this beautiful white Hibiscus along our street while looking for another flower. I found the flower I was looking for (the local fragrant Sampaguita) and to my surprise, I discovered this white Hibiscus blending well among the Sampaguita in one of our neighbor's front yard, that at a distance they look like the same plant! What a treat! At the photograph below you will see the small Sampaguita below the Hibiscus:

We call Hibiscus as 'Gumamela' and the common ones I see around our place are colored red, orange, yellow and the combinations of all these colors in one flower but rarely in pure white (I featured a pink one here before). I remembered playing with Gumamelas as a kid and we love mixing our crushed Gumamela petals with water and use the sudsy mixture for our blowing bubbles game. That was quite a fun memory!

Hibiscus bud

Hibiscus slowly unfurling

This morning I went back to visit the Hibiscus but only one flower remained. Maybe because it rained all day and this plant prefers the sunny weather. It is quite rare to have rainy days in March since we are supposed to be having summery weather already. The rainy weather normally is in June!

Hibiscus greeting all the passers-by . . .
And a bonus! Flashy Red Hibiscus beside the white one,
greeting everybody as well!