Four O'clock Flower (Marvel Peru, நான்கு மணி பூ, அந்தி மந்தாரை)
Like this beautiful 4 o'clock flower, blooming in our back yard around pears tree and along the veggie plants. Its botanical name is Mirabilis Jalapa and also North and South America called Marvel, Peru. Different color varieties of the flower, and different colored blossom on the same plant. In Tamil Nadu Peoples called this flower named as Anthi Mantharai(அந்தி மந்தாரை).
It is blooming time of 4 o'clock, in the middle of the afternoon, some of them bloom evening 8 - 10 o'clock, and closes early in the morning. Or little bit earlier on a cloudy afternoon.
