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Ipomoea nil
Ipomoea nil
- Botanic Family
- Convolvulaceae
- Author
- (Linnaeus) Roth
- Propagation
- D.S.
- Cultivated
- C, ornamental with cultivars
- Hardiness Zone
- Min7C
- Offspring
- Ipomoea nil 'Chocolate', Ipomoea nil 'Early Call', Ipomoea nil 'Flying Saucers', Ipomoea nil 'Limbata', Ipomoea nil 'Platycodon Flowered White', Ipomoea nil 'Platycodon Mixed', Ipomoea nil 'Scarlett O'Hara', Ipomoea nil 'Scarlet Star', Ipomoea x imperialis
Common Names
- Siyunri (Majhi)
- Qian niu (Pinyin)
- Nil Kalmi (India)
- Bang San (Laos)
- Ivy-leaf Morning-glory
- Taung-kazun (Myanmar)
- Bim bim biêc (Vietnam)
Geographical Habitats
- N. Argentina
- Bahamas
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- French Guiana
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Hispaniola
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- Leeward Islands
- Mexico
- Netherland Antilles
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Puerto Rico
- Suriname
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
- Windward Islands
Natural Habitats
- Disturbed areas
- cultivated areas
- riverside
- montane shrubland
- hedges
- thickets
- grassland
- coastal forest
- moist places
- wasteland
Flowering Times
- All year Feb-Jul (Bolivia)
Fruiting Times
Herbaceous annual or short-lived perennial hirsute twiner with hairy stems. 1-5 lobed leaves hirsute above to 150mm long, stiffly hirsute beneath. Axillary inflorescences of solitary or axillary dichasias with bracts to 10mm, of 80mm blue turning reddish purple flowers with white tube or sometimes white flowers, corolla to least 75mm long x 50mm, with tube 70mm, 5-lobed limb 30mm across, villous outside, hirsute sepals 30mm long hispid at base with yellow bristles. Fruit a yellowish glabrous capsule to 12mm diameter surrounded by persistent sepals
Has naturalised in some areas. Rampant, now pantropical
Seeds have medicinal uses. Edible root. Plant extract used against headlice.
Further References
- Sturtevant 1919
- Menninger 1970
- Bailey 1976
- Herklots 1976
- Beckett 1990
- Huxley 1992
- P & R 1997
- Manandhar 2002
- FOC
- RHS A-Z
- NYBG
- FB
- Bodkin
- Mobot
- JDH
- FL
- G. Don
- The Plant List 2
- FA
- Fedde
- VOPR
- USNH
- Botanicus
- F Indochine
- FOTA
- JAA
- FOSEUS
- FOPE
- SAFIO
- Kew
- KB