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Ipomoea pes-caprae
Ipomoea pes-caprae
- Botanic Family
- Convolvulaceae
- Author
- (Linnaeus) R. Brown
- Propagation
- S.
- Cultivated
- C, ornamental
Common Names
- Hou teng (Pinyin)
- Beach Morning Glory
- Pohuehue (Hawaiian)
- Puhuehue (Hawaiian)
- Chagar Kuri (India)
- Phak Bong Your Lai (Laos)
- Goatsfoot Convolvulus
- Railroad-vine
- Vulavula (Fiji)
- Lawere (Fiji)
- Wavulavula (Fiji)
- Bejuco de Puerco Playero
- Goat Foot
- Tapak Kuda (Singapore)
- Pinle-kazun (Myanmar)
- Rau múong biêng (Vietnam)
- Tapah Kudah (Malaysia)
- Brievengat
- Ivy
- Sea Vine
- Patate bord de mer (Guadeloupe
- Martinique)
- Passe-pierre (Les Saintes)
- Seaside-yam (Barbados)
- Ipomoea (Barbados)
- Gumbai-hirugao (Japan)
- Patate Bord la Mer
- Pudreoreja de Playa (Costa Rica)
Geographical Habitats
- Angola
- Christmas Island
- Cocos Islands
- New South Wales
- Norfolk Island
- Northern Territory
- Queensland
- Western Australia - Australia
- Bahamas
- Bangladesh
- Belize
- Benin
- Bermuda
- Borneo
- Brazil
- Burundi
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde Islands
- Caroline Islands
- Easter Island - Chile
- SE. China
- Colombia
- Comoros
- Congo
- Cook Islands
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Djibouti
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Fiji
- Marquesas
- New Caledonia
- Réunion
- Society Islands
- Tuamotu
- Tubuai Island
- Wallis & Futuna Islands - France
- French Guiana
- Gabon
- Ghana
- Guatemala
- Guinea
- Gulf of Guinea Islands
- Gulf States
- Guyana
- Hispaniola
- India
- Java
- Lesser Sunda Islands
- Maluku
- Sulawesi
- Sumatra - Indonesia
- Iran
- Sinai - Israel
- Ivory Coast
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Kenya
- Gilbert Islands
- Line Island
- Phoenix Islands - Kiribati
- Kuwait
- Leeward Islands
- Liberia
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Mexico
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Nauru
- Netherlands Antilles
- Kermadec Islands
- North Island - New Zealand
- Nicaragua
- Nigeria
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palestine
- Panama
- New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
- Peru
- Philippines
- Puerto Rico
- Samoa
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Cape Provinces
- Natal - South Africa
- Canary Islands - Spain
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Togo
- Tonga
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Tuvalu
- Cayman Islands - UK
- Alabama
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Louisiana
- Marianas Islands
- Mississippi
- Texas - USA
- Vanuatu
- Venezuela
- Venezuelan Antilles
- Vietnam
- Windward Islands
- Yemen
- Zaire
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Natural Habitats
- Sand dunes
- coastal thickets
- riverside
Flowering Times
- All year (Australia
- Puerto Rico)
- Aug-Nov (Japan)
Fruiting Times
Glabrous herbaceous tuberous, perennial succulent creeping twiner or prostrate radicant vine sometimes climbing, glabrous angulate stems to 30m with adventitious roots. Thick glabrous mucronate leaves more or less 2-lobed to 200mm across. Axillary 1-7 flowered dichasias or cymes with minute bracts to 2m long, of pale mauve or pink 70mm flowers with darker throat rarely white to 50mm long, glabrous coriaceous mucronate exterior sepals 10 x 7mm, interior sepals 11mm x 8mm, red-purple corolla 60mm x 30mm with tube to 25mm long, purple petioles. Glabrous 4-valved 20mm diameter brown seed capsules with persistent sepals.
Medicinal uses
Further References
- Mobot
- FOC
- FONZ
- FOH
- NYBG
- Bodkin
- FB
- JPS
- JDH
- G. Don
- FA
- VOPR
- FS
- USNH
- Botanicus
- F Indochine
- FV
- The Plant List 2
- FOTA
- FOMP
- JAA
- FOJ
- FOSEUS
- FOPE
- Smithsonian
- GBS
- Kew
- Standley
- Merremia
- MAN