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Morning Glory

Ipomoea nil

Photo by LarryGraziano
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10.1984, -85.8261

Field Notes

Description:

This is one of the many random vine plants growing in the area. This vine has one leaf that grows from the stem. Flowers are intermittently dispersed along the vine.

Habitat:

Tropical dry forest in NW Costa Rica one week after rainy season.

Reference Links:

Ipomoea nil

Species ID Suggestions

White Edge Morning Glory

Ipomoea nil
Ron Kushner
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Comments (13)
Ron Kushner
You are welcome... There is so much Beauty in the details that unfortunately many will never allow themselves to appreciate...
LarryGraziano
Sergio, OBRIGADO! Ron, Thank you for your concise reply. We appreciate all your efforts to help identifying spottings here on the site.
Sergio Monteiro
I've been around Ipomoeas for 5.6 decades now, and I was always amazed by that five points star. And this one is particularly beautiful.
Ron Kushner
Ipomoea nil is a New World species which originated in Northern South America. Here is the ars-grin page on it: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/tax_search.pl I am on record as stating that the sepals (which in this case are THE most important part) , are those of Ipomoea nil. I can identify an elephant whether it is in Africa or in Central Park and I can identify Ipomoea nil via the sepals the same way...it doesn't matter where I see it on this earth or if it is on the moon...I know the features...simple...no matter what any checklist book says... I don't think Ipomoea 101 is going to be possible for me to do here... My time is limited and I thought I'd take a quick run through the Ipomoea section but it may entail more than I was expecting... I just can't spend alot of time continuing to try and correct these entries... You may have to either accept my evaluation or reject it...
LarryGraziano
Ron, I was just looking to your spotting suggestion. I see the Ipomoea nil is a species native to Taiwan. Are you sure that it can be found also in Costa Rica. I coulnd't find any corroborating evidence or links.
Ron Kushner
The corolla and sepals are consistent for Ipomoea nil.
LarryGraziano
I got up early and got a shot of this in its' "morning glory"
Ashish
Dan you are right... its... Morning Glory... Ipomoea turbinata
Dan Doucette
No problem. Sounds good, you have a lot of cool spottings on the way. I'm going traveling next week, but I will still pop onto Noah when I can and hopefully I can continue to help ID.
LarryGraziano
Thank you Dan. Now that the rainy season just ended there will be a plethora of plants anxious to flower and seed over the coming weeks. Watchout!
Dan Doucette
Looks like a type of Morning Glory - Ipomea, if not the same family -Convolvulaceae, though its a fairly large family.

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Paso Pacifico Survey
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PublishedNovember 11, 2011

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