Little Red Mystery Vine Identified
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Little Red Mystery Vine Identified
- From: P*@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 17:50:01 EDT
Remember the mystery miniature red trumpet vine? Well quite by chance I
came across a photograph of it in a wildflower book. It is: Quamoclit
coccinea ---' twining annual to 3' leaves thin and broadly heart-shaped;
flowers about 1" across, scarlet with pale centers, fruit a few-seeded
capsule, introduced from tropical Americal.'
And while reading some
nomenclature info later, I came upon the following: In the case of
the small red morning glory , it was first described in a publication by
Linnaeus as Ipomoea coccinea...later a botanist named Conrad Moench decided
that it was different enough from other morning glories to merit a new or
different genus and moved it from Ipomoea to the new genus Quamoclit. As the
specific name first assigned always holds, in this case coccinea, and the
authority for it is always shownin parentheses, the new name thus becomes
Quamoclit coccines (Linnaeus) Moench.
Most likely more than you wanted to know, but there
it is*
I have not forgotten any of those who requested
seed, I have simply had more to handle than my one and only mind seems able
to manage* They will come:)
Holly
Zone 7
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