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  • COMMON NAME: Maryad-Vel, Arvel, Samudraphen.
  • ARABIC: قلب العاشق
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Ipomoea biloba Forssk.
  • SYNONYMS: Ipomoea pes-caprae
  • FAMILY: CONVOLVULACEAE
  • KIND: Introduced
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Landscape (L) Other Uses (O)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Terrace Terrace (Silt) Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
Karim FM and Dakheel AG. Salt-tolerant plants of the United Arab Emirates. 2006. International Center for Biosaline Agriculture, Dubai, UAE. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:268499-1#other-data V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021.
Highly salt tolerant up to half seawater salinity. Potential medicinal and culinary uses. ornamental plant. Seeds used as a purgative.
Green, prostrate or climbing, glabrous plant. Stems round, arising from thick woody base, long-trailing with many branches. Leaves large, cordate or orbicular with bilobed tip, 5-9cm across, entire, fleshy. Flowers 1-3 on long peduncle. Calyx 5-lobed. Corolla 5-lobed, trumpet-shaped, big, showy, pink in color, 3-5cm long. Style solitary. Stigma globose, bilobed. Fruit a capsule. Flowering in spring.
Cultivated. Rapidly grows and covers large area in seaside locations. Plant mostly heat and salinity tolerant.