Railway creeper
ഉദയമലരി
Ipomoea cairica (L.) Sweet
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- water
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Convolvulaceae
Also called Mile-a-minute vine, Railway Creeper, Gairo Morning Glory, Coastal morning glory, Common Morning Glory
Formerly Batatas cavanillesii, Batatas pulchella, Batatas senegalensis, Convolvulus bellus, and 25 more
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Climbing tuberous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Trop. & S. Africa, W. Indian Ocean, Israel to Arabian Pen., India to TaiwanKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Flowers
- White, purpleRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, height, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Chinese
- 槭葉牽牛, 五爪金龍, 番仔藤
- French
- Ipomée du Caire
- Spanish
- campanilla palmeada
- Chinese (China)
- 五爪金龙
- Japanese
- モミジヒルガオ, タイワンアサガオ, モミジバヒルガオ
- Russian
- Ипомея каирская
- Czech
- povijnice káhirská
- Indonesian
- Ubi Kates
- Swedish
- kairopraktvinda
- Afrikaans
- Wildetrompettertjie
- Danish
- kairopragtsnerle
- Thai
- ผักบุ้งรั้ว
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Ipomoea cairica (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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