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Ipomoea carnea

Species of flowering plant

Convolvulus batatilla Kunth, 1819
Ipomoea fistulosa Mart. ex Choisy, 1845
Batatas crassicaulis Benth., 1845
Ipomoea gossypioides Parodi, 1877
Ipomoea texana J.M.Coult., 1890
Ipomoea fruticosa Kuntze, 1891
Ipomoea fistulosa v. nicaraguensis Donnell Smith, 1894
Ipomoea fistulosa f. albiflora Chodat & Hassl., 1905
Ipomoea crassicaulis (Bentham) B. L. Robinson, 1916
Ipomoea crassicaulis v. goodellii O.Deg., 1936

Ipomoea carnea, the pink morning glory, is a species of morning glory that grows as a bush. This flowering plant has heart-shaped leaves that are a rich green and 6 – long. It can be easily grown from seeds. These seeds are toxic and it can be hazardous to cattle; the toxicity is related to the swainsonine produced by its endophytes, and to bioaccumulation of selenium in the leaves but mostly in the seeds. Ingestion of seeds or leaves causes abnormal endocrine functions and gastrointestinal functions, immune system alternation, abnormality in embryogenesis.

The stem of I. carnea can be used for making paper. The plant is also of medicinal value. It contains a component identical to marsilin, a sedative and anticonvulsant. A glycosidic saponin has also been purified from I. carnea with anticarcinogenic and oxytocic properties.

One selection of I. carnea, 'Inducer', has been used as a rootstock for inducing flowering of sweetpotato cultivars which otherwise prove reticent to produce flowers.

Another common name is "bush morning glory", but particularly in temperate North America, that usually refers to I. leptophylla.

In Brazil, I. carnea (in addition to other common names) is known as canudo-de-pito, literally "pipe-cane", as its hollow stems were used to make tubes for tobacco pipes. It thus became the namesake of Canudos, a religious community in the sertão of Bahia, over which the War of Canudos was fought 1893–1897.

File:Leaves of Ipomoea carnea plant.JPG|Leaves of an Ipomoea carnea plant. File:Ipomoea carnea' flowers.JPG|Ipomoea carnea flowers File:Ipomoea carnea, India.jpg|Flowers in Ranchi, India File:Pollen grains of Besharam plant (Ipomoea carnea).jpg|Pollen grains taken from plant in Bastar, Chhattisgarh, India

References

(2016). "Analysis of Swainsonine and Swainsonine N-Oxide as Trimethylsilyl Derivatives by Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry and Their Relative Occurrence in Plants Toxic to Livestock". J Agric Food Chem.
Sabogal, Ana. (December 2007). "[Estado actual de la investigación sobre Ipomoea carnea: toxicidad en ganado caprino]". Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
Abid Aqsa, Mushtaq Ahmad, Muhammad Zafar, Sadia Zafar, Mohamed Fawzy Ramadan, Ashwaq T. Althobaiti, Shazia Sultana, Omer Kilic, Trobjon Makhkamov, Akramjon Yuldashev, Oybek Mamarakhimov, Khislat Khaydarov, Afat O. Mammadova, Komiljon Komilov, and Salman Majeed. (December 2023). "Foliar epidermal and trichome micromorphological diversity among poisonous plants and their taxonomic significance". [[Folia Horticulturae]].
Chand, Navin. (June 20, 2005). "Impact toughness of Ipomoea carnea particulate-polyester composite". Springer Netherlands.
Dukes, P.D.. (1990). "'Inducer', a tree morning glory rootstock cultivar for use in breeding sweetpotatoes.". HortScience.

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