Re: Ipomea indica vine (Blue dawn flower)
>I have never found seeds on our Ipomoea indicas in this area either.
>I wonder if it is self-sterile and you need more than one clone to
>get seeds. This guy seems rampant enough with out seeds (thank
>heaven no seed seems to be produced!).
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>Forwarding - not sure this got through (from Jennifer)
>Sean O.
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>You are all being so beastly about the Morning Glory (Ipomoea
>indica) that I have to put in a word in it's favour, for as a
>painter I consider it one of the most beautiful flowers.It comes up
>every year in my garden here on the Med. and I love it with all its
>faults. An apparently simple shape and colour, and then as one
>looks deeper and more closely it becomes impossible to say exactly
>what colour it is; the fine delicate petals, the deep indents, the
>subtle curves; it reacts to the slightest breeze, and changes shape
>as the day goes on; I could go on too, however I think you get the
>picture.
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>Jennifer
>Gemcopley@cs.com
I have never seen any seeds formed either. And there was a time when
I was trying to find seed. While I wouldn't dare try to grow it here
in So. Calif., I first saw it in bloom in Central Texas at a friend's
house many years ago. And just as Jennifer remarks, I was entranced
with it. I kept looking each year for seed to plant a vine of my own,
but never found any pods whatsoever. On the other hand, it was a much
better behaved plant there because all aboveground growth was killed
off each winter by freezing weather. The ground doesn't freeze there,
so the root or tuber of whatever survived from year to year, but had
to re-grow the top portion anew every year. I guess it never got big
enough or old enough to have enough surplus energy to start sending
out all those beastly runners.
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--Lee Poulsen
wlp@radar-sci.jpl.nasa.gov
