1. Home
2. Ipomoea carnea

Ipomoea carnea

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

Jacquin

Propagation

C.L.S.

Cultivated

C, ornamental

Conservation Status

Least concern

Common Names

• Borrachero (Peru)
• La-thar-pan (Myanmar)
• Casahuate de Jardín or Hiedra or Belleza(Mexico)

Geographical Habitats

• Argentina
• Belize
• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Honduras
• SE. Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Texas - USA
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Disturbed areas
• shrublands
• dry hillside
• water edge
• dry forest
• in water
• montane forest
• swamp
• ditches

Flowering Times

• All year (Bolivia)

Fruiting Times

• Dec

Scandent twining shrub, erect plant or creeper to 5m with puberulent or glabrescent stems. Glabrous or puberulent mucronate leaves to 300mm x 150mm. 4-12l flowered axillary cymes or racemes of 100mm long with bracteoles to 4mm, pink to purple-pink or white flowers, puberulent sepals to 9mm x 8mm, pink corolla to 70mm long, silky outside with limb 50mm diameter. Tetragonal glabrous 4-valved capsule to 20mm x 10mm, light green.

Invasive, foliage poisonous

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Herklots 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• G. Don
• The Plant List 2
• USNH
• Botanicus
• FOPE
• Kew
• SAFIO
• Standley
• KB
• UNAM