Japanese morning glory
Japanese morning glory, also called the Ipomoea nil,[1][2] is an attractive cultivated plant, a climbing annual commonly with white edges, also named white-edge morning glory. It is found in US Florida to South America, also in Galapagos Islands.[3]
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Japanese Morning Glory Media
Cultivated flower close-up
The wild form of Ipomoea nil
"Morning Glories in Iriya, Eastern Capital" (1866), No 28 of "The Thirty-six Selected Flower Scenes" by Hiroshige II
The Iriya Morning Glory Market, Tokyo (2008)
In the wild, Taichung, Taiwan.
In the wild, Taichung, Taiwan.
References
- ↑ Daniel F. Austin and Zosimo Huaman 1996 A Synopsis of Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) in the Americas It is also called the morning glory because it blooms in the morning. Taxon 45, 3-38
- ↑ "Morning Glories Database : Section Pharbitis". protist.i.hosei.ac.jp. Retrieved 13 April 2010.
- ↑ "Departamento de Biologia Vegetal - ACTA BOTANICA MALACITANA". biolveg.uma.es. Retrieved 13 April 2010.
Other websites
Media related to Ipomoea nil at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Ipomoea nil at Wikispecies- Plants and classification of genus Ipomoea
- Morning glories, moonflowers, and their relatives Archived 2011-07-12 at the Wayback Machine
- Decoding the genome of the Japanese morning glory