Morning Glories: Morning glories: Edo woodcuts and modern chromosomes, 1 by bluespiral

bluespiral wrote:
There is some fascinating science and gorgeous Edo Woodcuts about morning glories on the following link (Some of this is in Japanese, but there’s enough English and Latin to identify these plants):
http://protist.i.hosei.ac.jp/Asagao/Yoneda_DB/E/menu.html
1) For info on a cross between Ipomoea nil (a hybrid) and I. Purpurea,
scroll down and click on Prospect,
then scroll down to “Breeding by Interspecific Crossing”
Going back to the first link, under Image Archives box further down, click on I. hederacea...interspecific hybrids. There you will find some chromosome count pictures relating to other interspecific hybrids.

2) For Edo period woodcuts of morning glories, go back to first link above, then scroll down to Image Archives box and click on Old Pictures

3) Further clicking around from the first link should lead you to a photogallery/textual explications of an encyclopedic array of morning glories of many species and cultivars. There’s one that has all the grace of a Japanese cut-leaf maple. And the flowers - I had no idea. I hope you explore this site.