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  • COMMON NAME: Cairo morning glory.
  • ARABIC: بنت الباشا
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Ipomoea palmata Forssk.
  • FAMILY: CONVOLVULACEAE
  • KIND: Introduced
  • EMIRATE: Dubai , Sharjah , Ajman
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Landscape (L) Other Uses (O)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Terrace Terrace (Silt) Slope (Rocky) 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:269450-1
Moderately salt tolerant. Potential medicinal and culinary uses. Ornamental plant.
Trailing vine or climbing to a great height over trees and walls. Stems round, many branched, covered with dense foliage. Leaves petioled, mostly palmate, deeply cleft into 5-7 lobes of various sizes. Peduncles 1-3, mauve flowers, longer than leaves. Calyx 5-lobed. Corolla broad, funnel-shaped, showy, 5-lobed. Style one; stigma capitate, 2-lobed. Fruit a capsule. Flowering in spring.
Cultivated. Easily grown in gardens and on roadsides, mostly tolerates a range of soils and salty conditions.
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