Bellflower Morning Glory is a large shrubby twiner.
Flowers are 3-7 cm long, bell-shaped,
distinctly lobed, hairless, white with dark purple throat.
Flower-stalks are stout,
0.5-0.8 cm, velvet-hairy. Sepals are round, 0.9-1.1 x 0.8-1.2 cm,
6 numbers, outer 3 velvet-hairy outside, inner 3 hairless. Flowers
are usually 2 or 3 together. Leaves are alternate,
8.5-18.5 x 9.5-21 cm, ovate to round, entire, abruptly tapering,
heart-shaped at base, velvet-hairy mainly beneath the veins, primary
lateral veins 14-17 pairs. Leaf-stalks are 4-8.5 cm.
Bellflower Morning Glory is found in Tropical Asia. In India it is seen
in Western Ghats and East Himalaya. Flowering: December-April.
Identification credit: Pravin Kawale
Photographed in Maharashtra.
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