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The whole plant is used in treating snakebite.
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Description
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Herbs annual or perennial, twining, usually glabrous, rarely puberulent. Stems to 10 m, terete, smooth or with soft prickles, sap milky. Petiole 5-20 cm; leaf blade ovate to ± circular in outline, 10-20 X 5-16 cm, base cordate, margin entire, angular to 3-lobed, apex acuminate, mucronulate. Inflorescences helicoid cymes, rarely dichasial, 1- to several flowered; peduncle stout, terete, 1-24 cm; bracts early deciduous, small. Pedicel 7-15 cm, clavate distally, enlarged in fruit. Flowers nocturnal, fragrant. Sepals elliptic to ovate, ± leathery, glabrous; outer 3 sepals 5-12 mm, apex with a stout spreading awn 4-9 mm; inner 2 sepals 7-15 mm, mucronate. Corolla white, with greenish bands, salverform; tube 7-12 cm, ca. 5 mm in diam.; limb 7-12 cm in diam., shallowly 5-undulate. Stamens exserted; filaments inserted in apical 1/2 of corolla tube, glabrous; anthers sagittate basally. Pistil exserted; ovary narrowly conical, glabrous. Stigma 2-lobed. Capsule ovoid, 2.5-3 cm, apiculate. Seeds white, brown, or black, ca. 10 7-8 mm, glabrous. 2n = 28*, 30*, 38*.
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Distribution
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Native of the New World tropics; cultivated as an ornamental and naturalised in most tropical areas.
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Habitat & Distribution
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Wet forests, watercourses, disturbed areas, cultivated and also naturalized sporadically. Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Jiangsu, Jaingxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang [naturalized in Indonesia, Japan (Ryukyu Islands), Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand; Pacific Islands, native in North and South America]
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Synonym
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Calonyction aculeatum (Linnaeus) House; C. aculeatum var. lobatum (H. Hallier) C. Y. Wu; C. album (Linnaeus) House; C. bona-nox (Linnaeus) Bojer; C. bona-nox var. lobata H. Hallier; C. speciosum Choisy; Convolvulus aculeatus Linnaeus; Ipomoea aculeata (Linnaeus) Kuntze; I. aculeata var. bona-nox (Linnaeus) Kuntze; I. bona-nox Linnaeus.
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alba: white
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Ipomoea alba L. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=147500
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Description
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Annual or perennial climber. Stems with milky sap, sparsely prickly. Leaves broadly ovate to heart-shaped, often more or less 3-lobed. Flowers large, white with lime-green bands, opening at night. Fruit a fleshy capsule, held in the thickened remains of the calyx.
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Ipomoea alba L. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=147500
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Frequency
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Occasional
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Worldwide distribution
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Native of tropical America
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Comprehensive Description
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Ipomoea alba L
Ipomoea alba L., Sp. Pl., 161, 1753.
Convolvulus aculeatus L., Sp. Pl., 155, 1753 [non Ipomoea aculeata Blume].
Ipomoea bona-nox L., Sp. Pl., ed. 2, 228, 1762 [nom. illegit. superfl.].
Calonyction bona-nox (L.) Bojer, Hort. Maur., 227, 1837.—F. Brown, Flora, 238, 1935.
Calonyction speciosum Choisy, Mém. Soc. Phys. Hist. Nat. Genève 6:441, t. 1, f. 4, 1833.—Jardin, Mém. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg, 5:297, 315, 1857.—Delmas, in Dordillon, Dict. Marqu. 2:585, 1932 [sub pohue].
Calonyction aculeatum (L.) House, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 31:590, 1904.
Calonyction album (L.) House, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 31:590, 1904.
Extensive usually glabrous liana, lower stems thick but scarcely woody, frequently more or less beset with fleshy spine-like processes; leaves cordate,
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- Sachet, Marie-Hélène. 1975. "Flora of the Marquesas, 1: Ericaceae-Convolvulacae." Smithsonian Contributions to Botany. 1-38. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.0081024X.23
Ipomoea alba
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Ipomoea alba, sometimes called the tropical white morning-glory or moonflower or moon vine, is a species of night-blooming morning glory, native to tropical and subtropical regions of North and South America, from Argentina to northern Mexico, Arizona, Florida[2] and the West Indies.[3] Though formerly classified as genus Calonyction, species aculeatum, it is now properly assigned to genus Ipomoea, subgenus Quamoclit, section Calonyction.[4]
Description
It is a perennial, herbaceous liana growing to a height of 5–30 m tall with twining stems. The leaves are entire or three-lobed, 5–15 cm long, with a 5–20 cm long stem. The flowers are fragrant, white or pink, and large, 8–14 cm diameter. The flowers open quickly in the evening and last through the night, remaining open until touched by the morning dew. On overcast days, the blossoms may remain open for longer. The flowers also tend to remain open longer during cool temperatures - which may also cause the segments to snag or tear as they open.
The name moonflower derives from their blooming in the evening and their being round in shape like a full moon.
Historical use
A pair of moonflowers newly bloomed
The Mesoamerican civilizations used the Ipomoea alba morning glory to convert the latex from the Castilla elastica tree to produce bouncing rubber balls. The sulfur in this morning glory served to cross-link the rubber, a process predating Charles Goodyear's discovery of vulcanization by at least 3,000 years.[5]
Cultivation
The species is widely cultivated as an ornamental plant for its flowers. In areas too cold for winter survival, it can be grown as an annual plant. Since it is of tropical origin, it flowers best under a summer short day photoperiod. Though it can be successfully flowered in the north, its flowering is impaired by excessively long summer days. Thus, it often does not set buds and bloom until early autumn when daylight length is once again near 12 hours. Propagation is usually by seed. The seed resembles a small, brownish nut, and should be nicked with a file and then soaked overnight before planting. In some areas, it is an invasive species which can cause problems in agricultural settings.
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Ipomoea alba: Brief Summary
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Ipomoea alba, sometimes called the tropical white morning-glory or moonflower or moon vine, is a species of night-blooming morning glory, native to tropical and subtropical regions of North and South America, from Argentina to northern Mexico, Arizona, Florida and the West Indies. Though formerly classified as genus Calonyction, species aculeatum, it is now properly assigned to genus Ipomoea, subgenus Quamoclit, section Calonyction.
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