Is this ipomoea indica?

Aschaffenburg, Germany

Two days ago I passed a hill with trailing ipomoeas in a taxi, so I decided to go back there to find out what they are.

Description of plant: Leaves look not quite like ipomoea nil, clusters of flowers, no seeds [even though they should have some seeds by now], sepals could be either nil or purpurea, they seem to have been planted because they were along a road, but I also found one dispersed plant, so I take it that they must have seeds at some stage...

They also must be able to stand enormously high temperatures because they are exposed to scorching hot sun here in Morocco or at least will be in a couple of weeks when I would expect them to melt away. They have some kind of protection because they grow up on trees or trail down the hill, so they do get some moisture during the night.

Stems can hardly be broken off, I took some home to see if they'll root in water...however I discovered spider mite on the leaves, so I am careful to introduce these in my garden...

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Aschaffenburg, Germany

Another photo....here they are trailing from the hill

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Jackson, SC(Zone 8a)

looks to be indica. and they should root just fine in water. just treat the spider mites. and should be ok.

Netcong, NJ(Zone 5b)

Ipomoea indica and they are often so clonal that are usually totally or almost totally self-infertile...

Ipomoea indica roots readily from the nodes...especially the nodes where the older leaves have fallen off and that have small row of small pre-root type of bumps on them

TTY,...

Ron

Aschaffenburg, Germany

I made a little wreath of the long part I had ripped off yesterday and placed it in the fountain in the garden, there it can decide from where to grow roots. The stem is almost like ivy, it took some effort to break it off...

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