Evolvulus glomeratus
Date collected: December 04, 1999
Collected by:Joyce Ann Edgar [at "Lori Ditchers" in Ohmine]
Synonym:
- Genus species: Evolvulus glomeratus
- Family: Convolvulaceae
- English name: Blue Daze, Hawaiian Blue Eyes
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- Growth form: Shrub
- Growth location: terrestrial
- Growth environment: cultivated garden
- Growht zone: tropical
- Average height: 52.5 cm
- Stem: woody, rough-kind of hairy; alternate; brown
- Leaf arrangement: alternate
- Stipule: light green; star-shaped
- Petioles: 0.1-0.2 cm long
- Leaf blade: elliptical to ovate leaf shape; acute tip; acute base; entire margin; green; pinnate venation
- Inflorescence: spike; five flowers observed
- Floral bracts: none
- Flower: rotationally symmetry and fused
- Calyx: five; white
- Corrola: five fused purple corrola
- Stamens: five white stamens; 0.2-0.3 cm filament; 0.2 cm white anther; basifixed
- Ovary: inferior
- Style: 1 cm; white
- Fruit: none
- Seed: not observed
- Anything else: flowers closes in the afternoon; opens up from 9:00 a.m.
- Cultural usage: none that I know of
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