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English: Botanical illustration from the book "Morning Glory Flowers", originally published in Japan under the title "朝顔三十六花撰" in 1854. It's widely considered one of the best books on morning glories published in Japan of that era, and reflected the "morning glory mania" that captured the people of Edo (present-day Tokyo) at that time.
They grow up to be about 50–100 mm (2–4 in) long and about half as wide. The vines can reach 3 m (10 ft) or more in length. The flowers are dull red with an orange throat. Red morning glory flowers are borne in clusters of a half dozen. The species name coccinea is Latin for "scarlet", and refers to the color of the flowers.
Morning glory flower, Ipomoea nil An unopened spiral bud of a morning glory flower, Ipomoea purpurea 'Blue Star', a cultivar of Ipomoea tricolor photographed in Haverhill, Massachusetts Morning glory flower (Ipomoea purpurea) Morning glory (also written as morning-glory [1]) is the common name for over 1,000 species of flowering plants in the ...
Like all morning glories, the plant entwines itself around structures, growing to a height of 2–3 m (6 ft 7 in – 9 ft 10 in) tall. The leaves are heart-shaped and the stems are covered with brown hairs. The flowers are trumpet-shaped, predominantly blue to purple or white, and 3–6 cm (1.2–2.4 in) in diameter. [5]
The flowers are trumpet-shaped, 4–9 cm (2–4 in) in diameter, most commonly blue with a white to golden yellow centre. I. tricolor and many rarer species of morning glory, contain ergoline alkaloids, predominantly ergine. Some supermarkets have stopped carrying I. tricolor seeds because of this.
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Ipomoea quamoclit, commonly known as cypress vine, cypress vine morning glory, cardinal creeper, cardinal vine, star glory, star of Bethlehem or hummingbird vine, is a species of vine in the family Convolvulaceae native to tropical regions of the Americas and naturalized elsewhere in the tropics.
Calystegia purpurata is a species of morning glory known by the common names smooth Western morning glory or Pacific false bindweed. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is endemic to California , where it grows in the seaside scrub of the coastline and the chaparral of the coastal and inland valleys.