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Habit:<br />

Stem:<br />

Leaves:<br />

Flowers:<br />

Fruits:<br />

A vine or shrub, up to several metres long.<br />

Slender or scandent.<br />

Ipomoea coccinea L.<br />

Common Name : Red star<br />

<strong>Family</strong> : Convolvulaceae<br />

Ovate, broadly cordate, 6-12 cm long, apex<br />

acute or acuminate, margins subentire, angled<br />

or broadly 3-5 lobed.<br />

Erect, red, borne in long-peduncled, fewflowered<br />

axillary cymes, up to 15 cm long.<br />

Capsules subglobose or ovoid, 0.6 cm in<br />

diameter.<br />

<strong>Weed</strong> ID Manual 185

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