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Ipomoea corymbosa

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

(Linnaeus) Roth ex Roemer & Schultes

Propagation

S.

Cultivated

C

Common Names

• Ololiuqui
• Christmas Vine (USA)
• Manto (Mexico)
• Aguinildo Blanco
• Corona de Novia
• Christmas Wreath (Barbados)

Geographical Habitats

• Bahamas
• Belize
• Bolivia
• Minas Gerais
• São Paulo - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Hispaniola
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Leeward Islands
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Louisiana
• Texas - USA
• Venezuela
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Coastal mangroves
• disturbed areas
• forests
• secondary forest
• riverside
• shrubland
• coastal thickets

Flowering Times

• Oct-Mar (Nicaragua)
• Oct-Dec (Mexico)
• Oct-May (Puerto Rico)
• Jul (Paraguay)

Fruiting Times

• Nov-Mar (Nicaragua)
• Jan-Feb (Puerto Rico)

Twining perennial mostly glabrous woody liana to 8m, or creeper, stems becoming flattened with age. Mucronate leaves to 100mm x 90mm, glabrous above, glabrous or puberulous beneath, often gland-dotted. Lax terminal & axillary cymes, umbels, racemes or corymbs to 200mm long with small bracts to 2mm, scented 32mm long white flowers with yellowish centre inside tube, purple-black marks at base, mucronate glabrous sepals to 15mm long, 3 inner sepals to 14mm long, 2 outer sepals to 9mm long. Beaked brown glabrous capsule to 15mm x 4mm with persistent & accrescent sepals.

Naturalised in some areas

Used as an hallucinogen

Further References

• Bailey 1976
• NYBG
• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• Fedde
• VOPR
• Botanicus
• JAA
• FOPE
• USNH
• Kew
• USDA
• SAFIO
• Standley