I remember my childhood when we kids used to collect the flowers and feed them to the calf which relished and would consume them and would allow us to caress it. Even cows love hibiscus flowers very much.
Collecting these flowers for the Onam (one of the key festivals of Kerala -India) floral circles called Pookkalam was a craze as these flowers are available in plenty and would make multiple circles with hibiscus flowers of different colours. Sometimes, when flowers are scarce, we even collect the leaves and make a green circle though it was considered among children as cheating.
So I still don't know why I consider this being a "humble" flower.
But look at it again, don't you also feel like it is a humble flower?
