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Ipomoea tiliacea
Ipomoea tiliacea
- Botanic Family
- Convolvulaceae
- Author
- (Willdenow) Choisy
- Cultivated
- C, root
Common Names
- Wild Potato
- Batata
- Bejico Blanco
- Bejuco de Puerco
- Goat Foot
- Wild Vine
- Liane Douce (Guadeloupe
- Martinique)
- Patate Marron (Guadeloupe)
- Patate bâtard (Guadeloupe)
- Patate à Cochon (Guadeloupe)
- Patate Sauvage (Guadeloupe
- Martinique)
- Wild Slip (Barbados)
- Pudreoreja
- Churristate
Geographical Habitats
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Cayman Islands
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- French Guiana
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Hispaniola
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- Leeward Islands
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Peru
- Puerto Rico
- Suriname
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Virgin islands - USA
- Venezuela
- Windward Islands
Natural Habitats
- Scrubland
- disturbed areas
- secondary forest
- forest edge
- rain forest
- riverside
- pastures
- fence rows
- coastal
- thickets. Often confused with I. batatas.
Flowering Times
- Jun-Aug (Brazil)
- All year (Puerto Rico)
Fruiting Times
Perennial glabrous or pubescent herbaceous extensive slightly woody twining vine sometime tuberous-rooted. Mucronulate sinuated leaves glabrous above with pilose mid-vein, slightly pubescent beneath sometimes dentate or lobed, leaves & young branches often tinged purple particularly at margins, veins & nerves. With many-flowered axillary dichasias, racemes, corymbs or cymes with small bracts of 60mm purple & blue flowers or lavender with darker red-violet throat to 60mm long, coriaceous glabrous mucronate sepals to 10mm long, purple or pink corolla to 60mm long. Pale brown beaked 2-4-valved capsule to 10mm long & diameter
Rampant
Further References
- Sturtevant 1919
- Rubatzky 1997
- Mobot
- NYBG
- Neotrop
- FB
- JBH
- The Plant List 2
- G. Don
- VOPR
- Botanicus
- JAA
- Kew
- SAFIO
- Standley