Red Moonflower?

Hi...
Last year someone sent me seeds that were called red moonflower. I have never seen anything but white before...but these seeds are much larger than regular morning glory seeds. Does anyone know...is there such a thing?
Thanks,
Marcy

Hi Marcy,
Sounds like you have Ipomoea turbinata

Smaller blooms, but pretty!
Emma

Another Photo

Emma called it right...it's Ipomoea turbinata...

Here it is in the PlantFiles database listed as both Ipomoea turbinata and Ipomoea muricata...these 2 separate entries should eventually be combined into just the Ipomoea turbinata as Ipomoea muricata is an outdated term for Ipomoea turbinata...there are variations in the flower color,but they are both variations of the same plant species which is Ipomoea turbinata...

Ipomoea turbinata
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/88060/

Ipomoea 'muricata'
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/55109/


There is also the colored moonflower Ipomoea macrorhiza which is a bona fide separate and distinct species entered here
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/65128/


TTY,...



P.S. the alleged Ipomoea purga sold by a dealer in this country and as offered by several European companies is actually this same Ipomoea turbinata...

This message was edited Mar 22, 2006 1:39 AM

Is this what the red moonflower that was purchased during a JMG seed co-op is? I have a few, but never planted any!! I'll have to try them this year.

Deb

Thank you both so much! This must be what I have. I can't wait to see it bloom. I have sprouts coming up now in containers!

Hi momcat ,

Yes,this is the same species that was purchased by the JMG co-op and listed by Takii as Ipomoea 'muricatum' ,but the Japanese are notorious for using botanical binomials that are long obsolete by the updated legitimate International Scientific community...

Ipomoea turbinata can have flowers that range from a slightly colored 'offwhite' with a darker tube and folds,through various shades of a pinkish/blue-lavender and with some 'strains' having a more solid color...the color displayed can be genetic but is also known to be be influenced by soil factors(e.g.,soil ph) and other climatic conditions,such as temperature gradients...it is these types of flower color variations that have contributed to the mistaken belief that the color variations represented different species,but there is no current legitimate species in Ipomoea bearing the epithet of either 'muricata' or 'muricatum'...as both of these older epithets have been determined to represent the current legitimate binomial which is Ipomoea turbinata.

Hoping this information will help to sharpen the accuracy of the terminolgy being used to describe the moonvine Ipomoea turbinata.

TTY,...