721 — Number of the plant

at the book: The Mother. The Spiritual Significance of Flowers.- 1-st Ed. / Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Pondicherry (India).- Singapore: Ho Printing, 2000.- ISBN 81-7058-609-7

Classification

► Division Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants

► Class Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons

► Subclass Asteridae

► Order Solanales

► Family Convolvulaceae - Morning-glory family

► Tribe Ipomoeeae

► Genus Ipomoea L. - Morning-glory

Synonyms

Common names

Cardinal creeper (English)

Kuhio-vine (English)

Lady Doorly's morning glory (English)

Prince Kuhio-vine (English)

Prince's-vine (English)

Ipomée (French)

Volubilis (French)

Description

Medium-sized intense magenta salverform flower with a long waxy corolla tube, white anthers and a purple stigma; the limb is divided into five segments with a clearly impressed star in the centre; borne in loose clusters. A moderately large vine with palmately lobed leaves.