Hibiscus berries

[PigletJohn]

I have several Hibiscus bushes, most of them self-seeded.

I noticed a thin, weedy climber coming up through them, with small leaves and bunches of red berries. In habit it was like a Convulvulous. I pulled at the pieces I could reach and they mostly came out or snapped off. Some of them were seedlings in the ground and I pulled them up. I have now traced one of the strings back, and it is coming out of the stem of a hibiscus. It has very small florets in bunches at ther tip of the string, a bit like a lilac.

Can this really be a variation of hibiscus? Do they have male and female plants?

No idea, have you researched Hibiscus Fruit and seen if they look similar and are edible?

Wikipedia mentions red and white seeds in five lobed capsules

Also hibiscus tea apparently from the rosa sinensis variety.

The one in my garden is white and grows in part shade if fed.

I take it all back

I have been out there again, cutting back, and discovered that although the stem is growing out of a hibiscus bush, and looks the same, it is in fact a different plant, with shallow-rooting runners. So I have pulled most of it up as a weed and will finish cleaning the bed later.

If it is convolvulous (bindweed) the best way we find it to paint on systemic weedkiller mixed in cheap wallpaper paste.

Are you lot ganging up on me? How do you know I hate the smell of cheap wallpaper paste?