Pink Morning Glory is a slender trailing herb. Alternately arranged leaves
are oblong lanceshaped, with a point tip and base somewhat heart-shaped,
hairy, 2-5 cm long, 0.5 cm wide. Leaves are carried on 2-3 cm long stalks.
Flowers are pink, funnel-shaped, 2 inches long, arising singly in leaf
axils, on 5-6 cm long stalk. Sepals are 5, nearly equal, lanceshaped,
1.5-2.2 cm long, hairy. Fruit is an ovoid capsule, with the persistent
sepals, up to 0.5 cm in diameter. Flowering: September-October.
Identification credit: Prashant Awale
Photographed at Tosheghar, Satara, Maharashtra.
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