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Ipomoea alba
Ipomoea alba
- Botanic Family
- Convolvulaceae
- Author
- Linnaeus
- Propagation
- C.L.S. Soak seeds in warm water prior to sowing.
- Cultivated
- C, ornamental, with cultivars.
- Hardiness Zone
- Min7C
- Conservation Status
- Least concern
- Offspring
- Ipomoea alba 'Giant White'
Common Names
- Moonflower
- Belle de Nuit
- Moonlight Convolvulus
- Scented Moon Vine
- Yue guang hua (Pinyin)
- Koali Pehu (Hawaiian)
- Waia (Fiji)
- Wamila (Fiji)
- Yedrón (Mexico)
- Bejuco de Puerco
- Bejuco de Vaca
- Claro de Luna
- Flor de Luna
- Kyahin (Myanmar)
- Nwe-kazun-phyu (Myanmar)
- Liane Blanche Bord de Mer (Guadeloupe)
- Fleur de Nuit (Martinique)
- Liane Douce (Martinique)
- Bejuco Trompeta (Costa Rica)
Geographical Habitats
- N. Argentina
- Bahamas
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Ecuador
- French Guiana
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Hispaniola
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- Leeward Islands
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Puerto Rico
- Suriname
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Florida
- Kansas
- Louisiana - USA
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
- Windward Islands
Natural Habitats
- Coastal forest
- disturbed areas
- scrubland
- wasteland
- thickets
- hedges
- grassland
- riverside.
Flowering Times
- Nov-Dec (Mexico)
- Apr (Papua New Guinea)
- Feb-Jul (Bolivia)
Fruiting Times
Annual or perennial glabrous herbaceous slightly woody twiner or creeper with rough stemmed, dark brown, reddish twining stems with recurved prickles or tubercules. 3-5 lobed or entire mucronate glabrous leaves 200mm x 160mm with minute hairs on margins. Solitary or axillary 1-6 flowered cymes with small bracts, of scented 150mm diameter white striped yellow-green nocturnal flowers, yellowish corolla tube 120mm x 6mm with limb expanding to 150mm diameter, lobes to 120mm diameter, coriaceous glabrous awned mucronate sepals to 16mm long, 2 or 3 outer sepals. brown 4-valved beaked capsule to 30mm long with persistent style.
Garden escapee, rampant
Medicinal uses
Further References
- Menninger 1970
- Bailey 1976
- Herklots 1976
- van der Spuy 1976
- Beckett 1990
- Huxley 1992
- Nicholls 1995
- P & R 1997
- FONZ
- FOH
- ' RHS A-Z
- NYBG
- Neotrop
- Bodkin
- FB
- FOC
- JPS
- JDH
- The Plant List 2
- G. Don
- RSNRV
- VOPR
- USNH
- Botanicus
- FOTA
- Flora Malesiana
- JAA
- FOPE
- Kew