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Skyblue Cluster Vine

Jacquemontia Pentantha

Botanical name	: Jacquemontia pentanthos.
Common Name	: Skyblue Cluster Vine
Family	: Convolvulaceae
Synonym	: Jacquemontia Pentantha
About	: Sky blue cluster vine is native of United States. Skyblue Clustervine is a small freely blooming creeper of controllable growth. The stem of the creeper is slender and green and the leaves are arranged alternatively. Leaves ovate to broadly ovate, 3-6 cm long, basally cordate, apically acuminate, glabrate. Flowers in dense cymes, usually with 1-2 flowers opening at any one time. Sepals ovate to lanceolate, acute to acuminate, 4-5 x 2-4 mm, pubescent. Corolla mostly blue, sometimes white, 2 cm long. Fruit capsular, globose, brown, glabrous. Seeds brown, 2.5 mm long, glabrous.