A couple of good inspection in china pictures I identified:
Bullet Hole in my Window :: iPhone
Image by Jonathan Kos-Study
Closer inspection revealed it to be a shot from inside the room. So cup half complete on that.
Morning in All Its Glory
Image by bill barber
From my set entitled “Morning Glory”
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In my collection entitled “The Garden”
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From Wikipedia, the free of charge encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_glory
Morning glory is a common name for more than 1,000 species of flowering plants in the loved ones Convolvulaceae, belonging to the following genera:
Calystegia
Convolvulus
Ipomoea
Merremia
Rivea
As the name implies, morning glory flowers, which are funnel-shaped, open in the morning, allowing them to be pollinated by Hummingbirds, butterflies, bees, and other daytime insects and birds as properly as Hawkmoth at dusk for longer blooming variants. The flower typically lasts for a single morning and dies in the afternoon. New flowers bloom each day. The flowers normally begin to fade a couple of hours ahead of the petals commence showing visible curling. They choose full sun throughout the day and mesic soils. In cultivation, most are treated as perennial plants in tropical areas and as annual plants in colder climates, but some species tolerate winter cold. Some moonflowers, which flower at night, are also in the morning glory family members.
Morning glory is also called asagao (in Japanese, a compound of 朝 asa "morning" and 顔 kao "face"). A rare brownish-coloured variant recognized as Danjuro is very well-known. It was initial recognized in China for its medicinal uses, due to the laxative properties of its seeds. It was introduced to the Japanese in the 9th century, and they have been very first to cultivate it as an ornament. During the Edo Period, it became a extremely well-liked ornamental flower. Aztec priests in Mexico have been also recognized to use the plant’s hallucinogenic properties. (see Rivea corymbosa).
Ancient Mesoamerican civilizations utilized the morning glory species Ipomoea alba to convert the latex from the Castilla elastica tree and also the guayule plant to make bouncing rubber balls. The sulfur in the morning glory’s juice served to vulcanize the rubber, a approach pre-dating Charles Goodyear’s discovery by at least 3,000 years.[1]
Simply because of their rapidly development, twining habit, desirable flowers, and tolerance for poor, dry soils, some morning glories are superb vines for making summer shade on building walls when trellised, thus maintaining the creating cooler and decreasing heating and cooling costs.
Popular varieties in contemporary western cultivation incorporate the Morning Glory "Sunspots" "Heavenly Blue", the moonflower, the cypress vine, and the cardinal climber. The cypress vine is a hybrid, with the cardinal climber as 1 parent.
In some locations such as Australian bushland morning glories create thick roots and tend to develop in dense thickets. They can rapidly spread by way of lengthy creeping stems. By crowding out, blanketing and smothering other plants, morning glory has turned into a critical invasive weed issue.
Ipomoea aquatica, known as water spinach, water morning-glory, water convolvulus, Ong-Choy, Kang-kung, or swamp cabbage, is popularly utilized as a green vegetable particularly in East and Southeast Asian cuisines. It is a Federal Noxious Weed, nevertheless, and technically it is illegal to develop, import, possess, or sell. See: USDA weed factsheet. As of 2005, the state of Texas has acknowledged that water spinach is a highly prized vegetable in numerous cultures and has permitted water spinach to be grown for personal consumption. This is in component simply because water spinach is recognized to have been grown in Texas for much more than fifteen years and has not however escaped cultivation.[two] The fact that it goes by so several names indicates that it effortlessly slips through import inspections, and it is often offered in Asian or specialty create markets.
The seeds of a lot of species of morning glory contain ergot alkaloids such as the hallucinogenic ergonovine and ergine (LSA). Seeds of I. tricolor and I. corymbosa (syn. R. corymbosa) are utilized as hallucinogens. The seeds can generate related effect to LSD when taken in the hundreds. Though the chemical LSA is illegal to possess in pure type, the seeds are found in several gardening stores, even so, the seeds from gardening shops may possibly be coated in some form of mild poison in order to stop ingestion or methylmercury to retard spoilage.[three] They need to not be taken by individuals with a history of liver disorders or hepatitis. They need to not be taken by pregnant girls as they can cause uterine contraction which can lead to miscarriage. Individuals with a history of cardiovascular disease (Heart attack, blood clot, and stroke) or a family members history of such issues, and the elderly must avoid consuming these seeds due to their vasoconstrictive effects.[4][five][6]
Note that the plant known as Korean morning glory, Datura stramonium, is of a diverse species, is poisonous, and also produces hallucinogenic effects.