Re: Ipomea indica vine (Blue dawn flower)
I wonder if the commerically available seeds have been engineered to
produce plants that don't seed. There was a time, in the 60's, when the
seeds of certain morning glories, particularly Heavenly Blue, were being
ground up and ingested to produce a halucinogenic high similar lsd or
mescaline.
Barbara
>
>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.
>
>--
>--Lee Poulsen
>wlp@radar-sci.jpl.nasa.gov
