Saturday, 30 September 2023

Littlebell

Littlebell (Ipomoea triloba, 三裂叶薯).

For the past three weeks, littlebells have been flowering in the wilder parts around the river. With rare exceptions their petals show little variety, and are predominately the same whitish pink. As a morning glory, the time it see then is before the mid-afternoon; later in the day the flowers are curled into shrivelled cones.

Littlebell flowers at the Xiang River