NHD52/28

Silver elephant creeper

Argyreia nervosa (Burm. F.) Bojer; Convolvulaceae family

Further inscriptions: Convolvulus speciose (front lower right in pencil)

Flowering twig of a silver elephant creeper plant. One smooth silver-greenish coloured twig, with alternate leaves, one big, green, and hearth-shaped, depicted from the front, two silver-coloured, depicted from the side. At the end of the main twig, bending downward on the right, one very small leaf, and a gem. One small pale pink bud, elliptic in shape with pointy ends and one sinuous orange line running across vertically, stems from the node of the lower silver leaf. A secondary twig, portrayed in front of the main twig to the left, shows an umbel inflorescence with one open flower and several buds, peeking between sinuous pale orange sepals. The flower is tubular with a campanulate end, petals opening outward, white in colour, with an inner purple circle. On the frontal view of the flower there is a stellate design. Lower right: dissected view of four differently sized and shaped sepals, the pedicel with the pistil, and the corolla. Petals are purple to white, with five stamens hiding within the purple section of the flowers, two of longer length, and three of shorter length.