Water Morning Glory

Ipomoea aquatica

''Ipomoea aquatica'' is a semi-aquatic, tropical plant grown as a vegetable for its tender shoots. This plant is known in English as water spinach, river spinach, water morning glory, water convolvulus, or by the more ambiguous names Chinese spinach, Chinese watercress, Chinese convolvulus or swamp cabbage, or ''kangkong'' in Southeast Asia and ''ong choy'' in Cantonese. Its place of origin is not known.
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Appearance

''Ipomoea aquatica'' grows in water or on moist soil. Its stems are 2–3 metres or longer, rooting at the nodes, and they are hollow and can float. The leaves vary from typically sagittate to lanceolate, 5–15 cm long and 2–8 cm broad.

The flowers are trumpet-shaped, 3–5 cm in diameter, and usually white in colour with a mauve centre. Propagation is either by planting cuttings of the stem shoots, which will root along nodes, or by planting the seeds from flowers that produce seed pods.

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Status: Least concern
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Taxonomy
KingdomPlantae
DivisionAngiosperms
ClassEudicots
OrderSolanales
FamilyConvolvulaceae
GenusIpomoea
SpeciesI. aquatica
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Indonesia