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Pink Morning Glory

Ipomoea carnea

Photo by SusanEllison
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Field Notes

Description:

I was walking and saw this over someone's backyard...is it over 6 feet tall.
This flowering plant has heart-shaped leaves that are a rich green and 6–9 inches long. It can be easily grown from seeds which are toxic and it can be hazardous to cattle.

The stem of Ipomoea carnea can be used for making paper. The plant is also of medicinal value. It contains a component identical to marsilin, a sedative and anti-convulsant. A glycosidic saponin has also been purified from Ipomoea carnea with anti-carcinogenic and oxytoxic properties.

Another common name is "Bush Morning Glory'", but particularly in temperate North America that usually refers to I. leptophylla. In Brazil, I. carnea is known as canudo-de-pita, literally "pipe-cane", as its hollow stems were used to make tubes for tobacco pipes. It thus became the namesake of Canudos, a religious community in the sertão of Bahia, over which the War of Canudos was fought 1893–1897. In South Asia, it is called besharam.

Notes:

family: Convolvulaceae

Species ID Suggestions

Morning Glory Bush

Ipomoea carnea

Comments (7)

You must feel its true morning glory http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/6604951
Ashish..I think you nailed it...thanks....I do not know if it is evergreen but I think it is seasonal flowering.
Ipomoea carnea Family Convaolvulaceae
Evergreen and all seasonal flowering shrub..?

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