Aka:
White Kauai Rosemallow
Koki'o Ke'oke'o
It is really a little, gray-barked shrub nearly 9 feet tall, located on Kaua'i island in fairly drier woodlands in and around Waimea Canyon and close by valleys.
The seed of Hibiscus waimeae is found in a hard, oblong capsules that are a good inch long.
It was last noticed in the 1920's in and around Wainiha Valley. Chipper Wichman and Steve Perlman, In 1977, located a few plants of the highly scarce Hawaiian Hibiscus at the foot of a waterfall within a valley inside Limahuli Preserve on Kaua'i.
Hibiscus waimeae is readily developed from fresh new seeds, but Hawaiian hibiscus will hybridize quickly and new plants can be quite totally different from the parent plant.
There's 2 white colored flowered Hibiscus varieties indigenous to Hawaii, Hibiscus waimeae and Hibiscus arnottianus .
Can still be found in Hawaii, I took this picture in the botanical garden in Kaua'i.
They are known locally in Hawaii as koki'o ke'oke'o.
The blooms last a single day, starting out white and changing to pink in the afternoon.
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