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Ipomoea tricolor

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

Cavanilles

Propagation

S.

Cultivated

C, ornamental with cultivars

Hardiness Zone

Min7C

Offspring

Ipomoea tricolor 'Blue Star', Ipomoea tricolor 'Crimson Rambler', Ipomoea tricolor 'Flying Saucers', Ipomoea tricolor 'Heavenly Blue', Ipomoea tricolor 'Heavenly Blue Improved', Ipomoea tricolor 'Pearly Gates', Ipomoea tricolor 'Roman Candy', Ipomoea tricolor 'Summer Skies', Ipomoea tricolor 'Weddings Bells'

Common Names

• Morning Glory
• Xyax Keel (Mexico)
• Yedra (Mexico)
• Liane Douce (Guadeloupe)
• Pudreoreja
• Churristate (Costa Rica)

Geographical Habitats

• Mexico

Natural Habitats

• Scrub
• disturbed areas
• thickets
• hedges

Flowering Times

• Jul-Aug (Mexico)

Fruiting Times

• Sep-Dec (Mexico)

Annual herbaceous glabrous twining shrub or creeper with axillary dichasia, umbels or racemes with minute bracts of 100mm sky blue to purple flowers aging violet with white throat outside yellow inside, triangular sepals green with white edge to 6mm long, puple corolla to 70mm long, pale brown beaked 4-valved capsule to 16mm long, glabrous mucronate leaves to 140mm wide x 120mm

Naturalized

Used by Mexican Aztecs as an hallucinogen in religious ceremonies and medicinally

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Herklots 1976
• van der Spuy 1976
• Beckett 1990
• Huxley 1992
• Nicholls 1995
• P & R 1997
• RHS A-Z
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• RSNRV
• VOPR
• JAA
• Kew
• Standley