Four Oclock Flower Fruit. Description Mirabilis jalapa can be grown as an annual across North Carolina but only perennializes in warm protected coastal gardensOld plants produce large potato-like tuberous roots and its fragrant flowers open at four or five oclock in the evening and are pollinated by hummingbirds and moths. Plants often self-sow so allow some spent flowers to go to seed.
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Four oclock umbrella-wort is native to tropical South America and introduced in North America mainly in southern eastern and western states.
At maturity the calyx swells and ripens into a 5-angled fruit containing yellowish-brown achenes. Four oclock is an erect nearly or quite smooth branched plant about 20 to 80 centimeters in height. 4 oclocks is a plant from my childhood so I was delighted when I was given a plant for my garden years and years ago. It is a popular garden ornamental in southern climate zones where it grows rapidly and bears flowers that.