Mickey Mouse Plant fruit's red sepals (not its flower as commonly mistaken) and mature seeds that look like eyes - all these explain why it is named Mickey Mouse. Its seeds if not yet mature are green.
Here's Mickey Mouse's flower. Do you notice the yellow green sepals just below the yellow petals? They will soon turn into red as shown in the photo above and below. This garden shrub grows about 9 feet tall. It is known to have originated from South Africa.
Three-eyed Mickey
All things bright and beautiful
All creatures great and small
All things wise and wonderful
The Lord God made them all.
Each little flower that opens...
God made their glowing colors...
-Cecil Frances Alexander
All things wise and wonderful
The Lord God made them all.
Each little flower that opens...
God made their glowing colors...
-Cecil Frances Alexander
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