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Blue Morning Glory
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Blue Morning Glory
aturalized Photo: Gary Thingnam
Common name: Blue Morning Glory, Japanese Morning Glory, White-Edge Morning Glory • Assamese: নীল কলমৌ Nil kalmou • Bengali: কালাদানা Kaladana • Hindi: Jharmaric, कालादाना Kaladana, नीलकलमी Neelkalmi • Kannada: ಗೌರೀಬೀಜ Gowri beeja, Kolli beeja • Marathi: कालादाना Kaladana, नीलपुष्पी Neelpushpi • Malayalam: Taliyari • Nepali: सिउंरी Siyunri • Telugu: Kollivittulu, Jiriki, kolli • Sanskrit: कलंजनी Kalanjani, कृष्णबीज Krishnabijah • Tamil: Kakkattan, Kotikkakkattan, Sirikki, Jigiri vidai • Urdu: ﺗﹹﺨﻢ ﻧﻴﻞ Tukhm neel
Botanical name: Ipomoea nil    Family: Convolvulaceae (Morning glory family)
Synonyms: Convolvulus nil
Annual or sometimes short-lived perennial, with twining to decumbent-creeping, slender, somewhat angular stems 2-5 m long. Leaves are broadly ovate or nearly circular, 4-15 x 4.5-14 cm, base heart-shaped, margin entire or 3-lobed. Inflorescences axillary, 1- to few flowered. Petals pale to bright blue with whitish tube, fading to pinkish in age, funnelform, 5-6 cm. Seeds black, ovoid-trigonous, 5-6 mm. Capsules ovoid to depressed-spherical, 7-8 mm high, 8-12 mm thick, 3-6-seeded. Seeds 4.5-6 mm long, black or brown. The black seeds have led to many of its common names. Blue Morning Glory is native to Tropical & Subtropical America, but now naturalized all over Tropical Asia and Africa, including the Himalayas.
Identification credit: Pravin Kawale Photographed in Imphal, Manipur.
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