Malvaviscus from tropical America, has 3 species of plants. They all have berry like fruits. An excellent plant for Birds and Butterfly garden. Malvaviscus arboreus var. M. drummondiiis a very variable species that includes varieties, subspecies and forms that were formerly considered distinct species. It is a thicket-forming shrubs. The plant behaving like a creeper can reach height of 12 feet when supported. Flowers corolla remains spiraling folded like and umbrella. Red in ascending color measuring up to 1.5 inches. Left to spread by itself, it becomes a shrub of 3 feet tall often spreading vegetatively by layering.  Stems and leaves with traces of stellate hairs.  Leaves velvety to tough, acuminate and shallowly 3-lobed. The plant is naturalized in the tropical Pacific and the taller Malvaviscus pendiforus cultivated as an ornamental plant for its large pendulous flowers Extracts from the plant have been used in traditional medicine against scalp infection, dysentery, gonorrhea and as antiseptic