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  • COMMON NAME: Common morning-glory, tall morning-glory, or purple morning glory.
  • ARABIC: مجد الصباح
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Ipomoea purpurea (L.) Roth
  • SYNONYMS: Convolvuloides purpurea, Convolvulus mutabilis, Convolvulus purpureus L., Diatrema purpurea, Pharbitis purpurea
  • FAMILY: CONVOLVULACEAE
  • KIND: Introduced
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Landscape (L) Apiculture (A)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Terrace Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual
  • REMARKS: Plants used by honeybees for nectar collection for honey production.
https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30043043-2/general-information V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021.
Ornamental plant. Honey nectar plants.
Twining annual herb, stems pilose. Leaves petiolate, 3 – 8 (– 15) × 3.5 – 8 (– 14) cm, ovate (rarely 3-lobed to half way), shortly acuminate, cordate with rounded auricles, both surfaces thinly to densely hispid-pilose; petioles 3 – 15 cm, pilose. Inflorescence of 2 – 5-flowered, pedunculate, axillary cymes, often umbellate in form; peduncles 1.5 – 7 cm, pubescent; bracteoles 2 – 8 mm, filiform, relatively persistent, pedicels 0.5 – 1.8 cm, pubescent but pilose apically; sepals subequal, 11 – 17 × 2 – 3 mm, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, acuminate to subobtuse, hispid-pilose, more densely so in lower half, inner sepals with scarious margins; corolla 4 – 5 cm, funnel-shaped, tube white, limb usually pink, sometimes cream or bluish, glabrous, 4 cm diam., unlobed. Capsule subglobose, 9 – 11 mm, glabrous, 6-seeded; seeds 5 mm long, appearing glabrous but minutely tomentellous under a microscope. Flowering from February-May.
Cultivated, Grows in gardens, parks, homes and roadsides.
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