Flower for ID | 16Jun2010AR02

[raghu ananth]

Kind request to ID this beautiful mauve colored,  flowering plant from Pichavaram mangroves. 

Date/Time :	17 May 2008 11:19AM
Location- Place, altitude and GPS:	Pichavaram Mangroves, Tamil Nadu
Habitat- garden/ urban/wild/type:	Wild,
Plant Habit-tree/shrub/climber/herb:	Herb, back waters, close to beach
Height/length:	-
Leaves-type/shape/size:	Butterfly shaped leaves, 5-10 cms Approx.
Inflorescence type /size:	-
Flowers-size/colour/calyx/bracts:	7-10 cms/Mauve/
Fruits type-shape/size/seeds:	-
Fragrance/odour/pollinator/uses  and so on	Small Spiders inside the flower.

[Neil Soares]

Hi,  It is Ipomoea pes-caprae [Goat's Foot Glory].             With regards,               Neil Soares. --- On Tue, 6/15/10, raghu ananth <ragh...@yahoo.com> wrote:

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[mani nair]

Dear all,

I have seen this flower on the side of  Mumbai beaches.

Regards,

Mani.

[raghu ananth]

Ipomoea - Morning glory

pes - The part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint

caprae - Goats

pomoea biloba (pes carpae, brasiliensis- all syn) 

biloba - having two lobes

favored habitat - Sandy beaches, 

Shared info from the net

http://mauimike6.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/pes-caprae-41.jpg&imgrefurl=http://mauimike6.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/maui%25E2%2580%2599s-morning-glories-part-2-ipomoea-pes-caprae-the-beach-morning-glory/&usg=__tMTGBev6MtI9KGorhwLLIAzJRZQ=&h=689&w=1034&sz=421&hl=en&start=12&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=e2FkegJGETcNaM:&tbnh=100&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3DIpomoea%2Bpes-caprae%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX%26tbs%3Disch:1

commonly extends its stems from the back-beach berm, over the tops of the first dunes, and right down to the high-tide mark on a beach. 

From our eflora database

http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix/browse_thread/thread/8e948228d6f21809

Thanks for the ID help.

Regards

Raghu

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From: mani nair <mani....@gmail.com>
To: Neil Soares <drneil...@yahoo.com>
Cc: indian...@googlegroups.com; raghu ananth <ragh...@yahoo.com>
Sent: Tue, 15 June, 2010 11:12:56 PM
Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:38581] Flower for ID | 16Jun2010AR02

[raghu ananth]

Ipomoea biloba 

Regional Name :- Adumbu, a creeping plant (Kannada to English, Kittels dictionary 1894)

Regards

Raghu

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From: mani nair <mani....@gmail.com>
To: Neil Soares <drneil...@yahoo.com>
Cc: indian...@googlegroups.com; raghu ananth <ragh...@yahoo.com>
Sent: Tue, 15 June, 2010 11:12:56 PM
Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:38581] Flower for ID | 16Jun2010AR02

[Dinesh Valke]

Ipomoea pes-caprae ... is commonly known as: bayhops, beach morning glory, goat's foot vine • Bengali: ছাগলকুরী chagalkuri • Gujarati: મર્યાદા વેલ maryada vel • Hindi: छगली chagali, दो पत्ती लता do patti lata • Kannada: adambaballi, bangadivalli • Konkani: बांगडा वेल bamgda vel • Malayalam: അടമ്പുവള്ളി atampuvalli • Marathi: दुपानी लता dupani lata, मर्यादा वेल maryada vel • Sanskrit: सागरमेखला sagarmekhala • Tamil: அடம்பு atampu, அடப்பங்கொடி atappan-koti, ஆட்டுக்காலடம்பு attu-k-kal-atampu • Telugu: బాలబంద balabanda


Regards.

[tanay bose]

This is plant also called beach morning glory because it extensively grows in the sandy soil of the beaches as thick mat. It is  also one of the rare halophytic species of Ipomoea, most widely distributed halophytic vines all over the tropical regions of the world.. They have capacity to tolerate high salt concentration. They use the sea water are an agent of seed dispersal , as the seeds have special covering the saline waters have no effect over it. this plant is used as a sand binder all over the world to decrease the sand erosion in the beaches.
Tanay

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