Jacquemontia pringlei

These are uncommon lavender/purple ones. I'll leave it to Ron to do the talking .. btw .. he gets real excited about inner sepals you can't see.

The contrast has been whomped down for detail.

The elusive inner sepals

Whoa, that is just beautiful..it has a grey tint almost.. WOW..

Yeah .. i tore apart rons flower .. good thing he doesn't know where I live

the last one

The colors aren't really correct Gourd since the contrast is lowered. Here is what one looks like in real life.

WOW I say WOW!!!

I love those little leaves surrounding the flower, they look like bracts from a bougie... Thank you for sharing this.
A.


edited to change: leaved to leaves

This message was edited Aug 9, 2008 9:30 AM

Very nice X. I love this one.

Thanks

X

X - WOW! Nice bloom and as always ... your photos are amazing showing so much macro detail! Would you mind showing what the leaves look like? Is it a climber?

Leaf

Yes it climbs

Thanks for posting those additional photos, X!

That's quite an interesting vine! Is it a night bloomer? For some reason, I often see the white blooms as night bloomers. Very, very nice! :-)

It's a day bloomer

Thanks, X! I appreciate the photos and information! Very nice!

Welcome.

X - Thanks for starting the thread and sharing the photos...

Glad that someone finally got this one to sprout and proceed to flowering...

Jacquemontia pringlei is a US native perennial species to be found growing mostly in Arizona,but also reportedly in New Mexico and in the Big Bend area of Texas...most photos on the web are those of wild specimens as this species is almost completely unknown in cultivation...the seeds can be particularly recalcitrant sprouters...often sprouting only after the later summer rains ...

The flowers are most usually white but rarely a lavender...my collector source assured me that this particular strain had lavender flowers...so far,the flowers look offwhite...perhaps the lavender will strengthen as the plant matures...

The Jacquemontia are unusual in that they have psilate / smooth pollen like the Convolvulus,but still have a relatively stout stigma closer in structure to the genera having echinate / spinulose pollen structure like the Ipomoea...

I look forward to the day when all US native MG species are a standard component of home conservation / preservation gardening....and the efforts of all of those who contribute to all the various stages involved in identifying,locating,obtaining and multiplying the seeds in sufficient quantities are helping to make home conservation gardening a more accessible reality...


TTY,...

Ron

That is really eye popping wow..... We have something called bindweed here in Middle Tennessee, and most folks hate it... But I leave it grow.. especially around the fencing by our pet cemetary way down in our meadow... The blossoms seem to stay longer into the day. and they look quite charming...
Maybe I am making a mistake by allowing it to grow, but there is white and there are little blue ones... almost the color of heavenly blue..

Hubby just pulled it all off the fence thinking he was doing me a favor... but I reckon it will soon be back...

Carolyn

God Bless your pets, Carolyn.

HI pineviewplanter-Carolyn,

I'm glad that you maintain and open mind as per enjoying different species of Morning Glories...

Generally...

The white flowered one you have growing is likely to be Calystegia sepium and the little blue one is likely to be Ipomoea hederacea...
both of these plants have become over proliferated mainly due to the unnatural conditions presented by plowed fields that are devoted to large areas of a single species of plant...therefore the conditions that keep the species in balance as found in most wild conditions (e.g.,natural competition for light,nutrients,space and conditions to limit germination) are simply not present in wide open deeply plowed fields...
yes,the farmers hate them,but it is also the unnatural agricultural conditions that have caused the over-proliferation of these species more than all other factors combined......


The Calystegia sepium is native to most of the USA and was not considered to be an 'invasive plant' until the deeply plowed fields caused it to become 'invasive'...

The cold hardy species with deep diving perennial roots are the species that have the highest potential for spreading longterm into unwanted areas...


There are many thousands of species in Convolvulaceae (which is the Morning Glory Family of plants) and many species have a particular set of environmental conditions in which they will thrive within and relatively few are actually very invasive...
it is important that the majority of the many species (which are not very invasive) are not all 'lumped together' and considered to have the same habits as the very difficult to remove 'bindweeds'...

The term 'bindweed' is actually a very fuzzy term,that may refer to plants in different families and that is frequently used as a common name for plants which cannot possibly bind anything...
e.g.,
Convolvulus floridus - the common name for this is " Tree Bindweed" - simply because it is in the Convolvulus genus
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/110781/
The 'bindweed' term is very misapplied as Convolvulus floridus is an upright plant that never twines and therefore cannot possibly bind anything...

Thanks for sharing regarding your aesthetic sense...

TTY,...

Ron

Great job! I tried to grow these but I didn't get them to germinate.

Mine took about eight months to germinate then went comatose for a year. In frustration I spritzed it with some gibberelic acid and gave it some bloom booster and it took off. There have been a couple of mg's I've grown for Ron that have taken a year or more to germinate. Since discovering the "curse n stir" method of germination with datura, I no longer give up on seeds. I tend to plant the unknowns as to germination time in a window box I keep in the greenhouse. That way they can sit there as long as they want and it's easier to keep the soil consistently moist than in an individual pot. I also discovered that anything sitting on my concrete pavers has a lower soil temperature than if they are on the gravel. It's an astonishing 5 -10 degrees lower! It's like the concrete sucks the heat right out of the pots.

X

That's amazing that it slept for almost a year and then came back like that. I've done the curse and stir method, too! Amazing how well it works! LOL!