Morning Glory, Grannyvine 'Heavenly Blue' (Ipomoea tricolor)

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Noell_swfl Fort Myers, FL(Zone 10a) Oct 22, 2006

Morning Glory, Grannyvine 'Heavenly Blue'
Ipomoea tricolor

Heavenly Blue Morning Glory blooms!

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RON_CONVOLVULACEAE Netcong, NJ(Zone 5b) Nov 02, 2006

Hi Noell,

The Heavenly Blue here looks nice and in conjunction with your other closeup of the plant posted here
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/130757/
shows the classic distinctive features of Ipomoea tricolor >such as the corolla shape,blue color,the distictive sepals of the flowerbuds and overall looks most closely matching the other Plantfile entries for Ipomoea tricolor features clearly visible in the following photo entries
Ipomoea tricolor closeup of important ID details
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/106781/
Heavenly Blue
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/98991/
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/23444/
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/21088/
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/70422/
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/28854/
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/46406/
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/57561/
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/98989/
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/127032/
Flying Saucers and Heavenly Blue
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/117624/
Flying Saucers
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/44000/
Wedding Bells
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/90108/
Pearly Gates
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/89823/
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/89822/


Best Regards

Ron


P.S.- check out this thread for some recently posted info on Ipomoea tricolor and Ipomoea violace and the history of the confusion as the community of persons interested to use the seeds for 'personal visionary experience' continues to perpetuate long outdated notions regarding the 2 different species...
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/664869/
Ipomoea violacea(despite the misleading epithet) is actually never blue,but in fact is a white beach moonflower...the seeds are hairy
Ipomoea violacea is not "Heavenly Blue" and in fact non of the key ID structures of Ipomoea violacea and Ipomoea tricolor even come close to matching...
and the relation stems from the long term confusion with Ipomoea tricolor...the 2 species have been determined to be completely distinct and are classified as follows

Current taxonomical reference links for the 2 different species are here
http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?20238
Genus: Ipomoea subgenus: Eriospermum section: Erpipomoea
http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/tax_search.pl
Genus: Ipomoea subgenus: Quamoclit section: Tricolor
The 2 completely different species are not even in the same subgenus(!)

It would seem that the species epithet of violacea should have been changed when the clarification of the 2 completely different species was determined,but unfortunately such botanical misleading epithets do occur...sometimes to reflect the mistaken origins of the epithet as per the antiquated literature...

I thought I should post these salient points and references to help clear up the perpetuating myth that the 2 species of this topic are not actually both 'Heavenly Blue" and that the 2 species show very significant structural features

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Noell_swfl Fort Myers, FL(Zone 10a) Nov 04, 2006

Thank you! I'll read up more soon...

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Baa Nov 05, 2006

Thank you both. Noell, we've moved your images to the I. tricolor entry :)

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Noell_swfl Fort Myers, FL(Zone 10a) Nov 06, 2006

Thank you! I got so busy.. my son had pink eye's (both eyes were infected).. and The fun never ends with 4 kids!!

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Baa Nov 06, 2006

Oh dear! I hope your son recovers soon!

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