Common name: Snow Creeper, भोवरी Bhauri (Marathi)
Botanical name: Dinetus racemosus Family: Convolvulaceae (morning glory family)
Synonyms: Porana racemosa/ malabarica
Surprisingly rarely seen is this most attractive, annual
climber, native to India. Forming a dense mass of foliage, it smothers
itself in late summer into autumn with an incredible, snow-drift profusion
of tiny, tubular, star-faced, snow-white flowers. And the flowers are fragrant
too. Heart-shaped leaves are 6-12 cm long. Slender leaf-stalks are 1-8 cm.
The stalks are eaten in the Deccan areas.
| Photographed in
Lonavala, Maharashtra. |
Identification credit: Navendu Pagé
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