1/23/13 Ipomoea tricolor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

1/2en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipomoea_tricolor

Ipomoea tricolor

Ipomoea tricolor 'Heavenly Blue'

Scientific classification

Kingdom: Plantae

(unranked): Angiosperms

(unranked): Eudicots

(unranked): Asterids

Order: Solanales

Family: Convolvulaceae

Genus: Ipomoea

Species: I. tricolor

Binomial name

Ipomoea tricolor

Cav.

Ipomoea tricolorFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Mexican Morning Glory" redirects here. This can also refer to the red-flowered I. coccinea.

Ipomoea tricolor (morning glory)is a species of flowering plant inthe family Convolvulaceae, native the New World tropics, and widelycultivated and naturalised elsewhere. It is an herbaceous annual orperennial twining liana growing to 2–4 m (7–13 ft) tall. The leaves arespirally arranged, 3–7 cm long with a 1.5–6 cm long petiole. Theflowers are trumpet-shaped, 4–9 cm (2–4 in) in diameter, mostcommonly blue with a white to golden yellow centre.

Contents

1 Cultivation and uses

1.1 Entheogenic use

2 References3 External links

Cultivation and uses

In cultivation, the species is very commonly grown misnamed asIpomoea violacea, actually a different though related species.Numerous cultivars of I. tricolor with different flower colours havebeen selected for use as ornamental plants; widely-grown examplesinclude Blue Star, Flying Saucers, Heavenly Blue, Heavenly BlueImproved, Pearly Gates, Rainbow Flash, Skylark, Summer Skiesand Wedding Bells. The cultivar 'Heavenly Blue' has gained the Royal

Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.[1]

Entheogenic use

The seeds, vines, flowers, and leaves contain ergoline alkaloids, and have been used for centuries by manyMexican Native American cultures as an entheogen; they were known to the Aztecs as tlitliltzin, the Nahuatlword for "black" with a reverential suffix. In South America, the seeds are also known as badoh negro.

Richard Schultes in 1941 described Mexican Native American use in a short report documenting the use datingback to Aztec times cited in TiHKAL by Alexander Shulgin. Further research was published in 1960, whenDon Thomes MacDougall reported that the seeds of Ipomoea tricolor were used as sacraments by certainZapotecs, sometimes in conjunction with the seeds of Rivea corymbosa, another species which has a similarchemical composition, with lysergol instead of ergometrine. This more widespread knowledge has led to a rise inentheogenic use by people other than Native Americans.

The hallucinogenic properties of the seeds are usually attributed to ergine (also known as d-lysergic acidamide, or LSA), although the validity of the attribution remains disputed. While ergine is listed as a Schedule IIIsubstance in the United States, parts of the plant itself are not controlled, and seeds and plants are still sold by

1/23/13 Ipomoea tricolor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2/2en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipomoea_tricolor

many nurseries and garden suppliers.

The seeds also contain glycosides, which may cause nausea if consumed.[citation needed]

Wedding Bells

Wedding Bells close-up

References

1. ^ http://apps.rhs.org.uk/plantselector/plant?plantid=1032

External links

Germplasm Resources Information Network: Ipomoea tricolor (http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?20231)

Erowid Morning Glory vault (http://www.erowid.org/plants/morning_glory/morning_glory.shtml)

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ipomoea_tricolor&oldid=528550083"

Categories: Entheogens Ipomoea Herbal and fungal hallucinogens Natural sources of lysergamides

Navigation menu

This page was last modified on 17 December 2012 at 23:21.Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms mayapply. See Terms of Use for details.

Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.