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.Scientific name: Ipomoea Carnea

.Popular Names: Angry Cotton, Swamp's cotton, Majorana

.Family: Convolvulaceae

.Category: Shrubs, Tropical shrubs, weeds, creepers

.Climate: Equatorial, Subtropical, Tropical

.Origin: South America, Brazil

.Height: 1.8 to 2.4 meters, 2.4 to 3.0 meters, 3.0 to 3.6 meters

.Luminosity: Full Sun

.Life Cycle: Perennial

 

It is a floral, rustic and ornamental bush, but potentially dangerous in cattle creations. Medium, reaches 1 to 4 meters high. Its stem is branched, erect, with herbaceous texture and spongy interior.

The flowers arise abundant for nearly all year round, but mainly in the Spring and Summer. They can be roused, violet or white; the seeds are cottony and disperse by wind and water.

Angry cotton is one of these few plants that has the ability to produce flowers in all seasons.

In the garden it can be planted isolated or in groups, but adapts very well to the aquatic environment, adorning the margins of lakes and other water courses.

Although shrubby, it can also be conducted as a creeper, with due tutoring.

Its flowers are attractive to hummingbirds, bees and butterflies.

Extremely rustic plant, tolerates severe pruning, burnt, prolonged dry and floods, but does not tolerate frost or intense cold.

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