The plant, originally from eastern India, is now cultivated in several tropical and equatorial countries. The fruits of
the cultivated plant, Hibiscus abelmoschus L., contain the flat, kidney-shaped seeds about 4 mm long and 3 mm thick. The seeds
are grayish-red but sometimes greenish in color. Although the better quality seeds are said to come from Martinique, seeds are also
produced in Angola, Ecuador, China, Indonesia, Madagascar and the Seychelles
