Ipomoea alba

Ipomoea alba

Ipomoea alba is a species of the genus of morning glories (Ipomoea ). It is pantropical spread.

Description

Ipomea alba is a herbaceous, containing milky sap climbing plant that is often glabrous or hairy weichborstig the stem. The petioles are up to 20 cm long, thin leaf blades are ovate or rounded - ovate to ovate - oblong or round. The most hairless leaf blade is 5-18 cm long and 8-16 cm wide. You suddenly ends in a short - pointed tip, base deeply cordate. The margin is entire or three-to five-lobed.

The flowers are in one-to many-flowered inflorescences that are usually shorter than the leaves. The pedicels are 7-15 mm long, in the fruit they are thicker and angular. The sepals are green and fleshy, about 1 cm long. The outer two or three sepals are shaped lanceolate or ovate, 10-20 mm long and form at the top of an attachment. The two inner sepals are rounded and mucronate. The crown is colored white with green stripes and salverform. The corolla tube is 8 to 15 cm long, the coronary band 8 to 15 cm wide. The stamens and the stamp are slightly above the crown out.

The fruits are conically shaped, geschnabelte capsules having a length of 2 to 3 cm and a diameter of 1 to 2 cm. They contain black seeds that are hairless or nearly hairless and 1 cm long.

Occurrence

The species has a pantropical distribution. It grows along roadsides, in thickets and river banks in low and medium altitudes.