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Ipomoea albivenia

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

(Lindley) Sweet

Propagation

S.

Common Names

• Wild Cotton
• Wildekatoen
• Climbing Kapok

Geographical Habitats

• Kenya
• Mozambique
• Natal
• Northern Provinces - South Africa
• Swaziland
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

• Apr

Caudiciform perennial climber with finely pubescent stems, solitary terminal white flower, pink/yellow/purple in throat, racemes or cymes with bracts to 16mm long, tomentose calyx to 12mm long, glabrous corolla to 85mm long. Night flowering. Fruits light green, stems tomentose becoming tubercular & nearly glabrous with age, leaves woolly beneath to 150mm long

Further References

• G. Don
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• Caudiciform
• FOTA
• Kew