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Quamoclit pinnata, Bojer (Ipomoea Quamoclit, Linn. Q. vulgaris, Choisy. Q. Quamoclit, Brit.). Cypress-vine. Indian Pink. Fig. 3301. St. smooth, slender, twining to a height of 10-20 ft.: lvs. short-petioled or sessile: peduncles few-fld., commonly much longer than the petioles: corolla 1-1 1/2 in. long, scarlet, the tube narrowly funnel- form, inflated above; the limb nearly flat, 5-lobed. July-Oct. Naturalized from Trop. Amer., Va. to Fla., west to Kans. and Texas; sparingly escaped from cult, farther north. B.M. 188 (as Convolvulus Nil); 244. Gn. 29, p. 33.—Beautiful in fl. and foliage but usually does not succeed well in the N. unless started early in the hot- house and transplanted. Var. alba, Hort., has white fls.
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==References==
*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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