NHD52/24

Ipomoea L.; Convolvulaceae family

Further inscriptions: Convolvulus longiflora (front lower right, in pencil)

Twig of a white morning glory plant. One horizontal, slender, light green twig with two large, hearth-shaped leaves, and flowers. Alternating between the leaves, two large flowers are depicted facing the front (left) and the back (right). Each flower is constituted by five rounded diamond-shape petals. The corolla is attached to a pink pedicel. The back facing flowers shows a tubular flower structure, supported by five stellate, long and narrow sepals. On the right of each flowers, one or two buds, showing petals enclosed in a spiralling elongated bud, coloured in pale orange; one leafless calix. One thin tendril, lighter in colour, runs across in front of a leafless flowering twig, with a smaller and lighter green hearth-shaped leaf, and an even smaller elliptic leaf. Behind it, a separate leafless twig is depicted with four globular buds, differing from the upper buds by having a larger ovary and pedicel. The end of the pedicel is tinted in pink, as are the petals. On the lower left corner: dissected view of the green to pink pedicel with the pistil, the the corolla with the four stamens.

Any further details: White paint partly oxidised.