Morning Glory Flower Varieties

Morning glory vines are usually thicker than bindweed s vines and may have small hairs.

Morning glory flower varieties. Morning glories are members of the convolvulaceae family which takes on a number of forms depending on the part of the world in which it developed. Use them to create a colorful wall or to cover an unsightly area. Ancient mesoamerican civilizations used the morning glory species ipomoea alba to convert the latex from the castilla elastica tree and also the guayule plant to produce bouncing rubber balls. Other than providing them with water the main thing to remember is what not to do.

The pods are ready to pick when they turn papery and brown and contain dark brown or black seeds. They will also twine up the hangers. The water morning glory or water spinach also called ipomoea aquatica is eaten in certain parts of asia just like a vegetable. Fashion a living fence porch or deck railing.

Purchase or gather morning glory seeds. Morning glory vines will quickly cover trellises pergolas arches and fences. Interestingly morning glories belong to the same family as sweet potatoes. The seeds that are produced from the morning glory plant are brown or sometimes black in color.

As morning glory flowers die they leave behind round seed pods at the base of the flower stem. Once eaten they are what produces a psychedelic high. Buy packaged seeds or collect the seed pods from a friend s morning glory plant. There s a staggering number of varieties in this plant s family over 1000 to be exact.

Morning glory vines do not need much care. Morning glory was first known in china for its medicinal uses due to the laxative properties of its seeds. Fertilizing with a high nitrogen fertilizer will cause your plants to grow mostly leaves and produce few flowers. The morning glory plant is a twining perennial vine that is cultivated in many gardens the plant bears clusters of blue to purplish flowers and sometimes will produce white flowers.

In fact in many varieties of this flower the seeds have a psychedelic effect that is very similar to lsd if you take it in large doses. Field bindweed flowers only occur in either pink or white whereas annual morning glory flowers may be pink white magenta blue purple or red and are much larger than those of the bindweed. Let s learn more about some common morning glory varieties. The sulfur in the morning glory s juice served to vulcanize the rubber a process predating.

Morning glories belong to the ipomoea genus. The difference of course being that they don t produce edible tubers. Nitrogen is the first number in the npk sequence on the label of a fertilizer bag. Morning glory flowers ipomoea purpurea or convolvulus purpureus are a common sight in many landscapes and may be found in any number of species within the calystegia convolvulus ipomoea merremia and rivea genera while some varieties are described as noxious weed in some areas the fast growing vining plants can also make lovely additions to the garden if kept in check.

Drape out of a hanging basket. The classic heavenly blue morning glory flowers aren t the only types that grow however.