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Family: Convolvulaceae	Genus: Ipomoea	Species: Ipomoea cairica (Linn.) Sweet( नीली बेल )

Habit	Leaf	Flower	Fruit	Bark

Synonym	Convolvulus heptaphyllus Roxb., Convolvulus cairicus Linn., Ipomoea palmata Forssk.	Flower Color	Blue - Purple
Common Name	Neeli – bel	Flower Type	Solitary
English / Trade Name	Railway Creeper, Cairo Morning Glory, Five-Fingered Morning Glory, Five-Leaf Morning Glory, Ivy-Leaved Morning Glory, Messina Creeper, Mile a Minute	Flowering Period	Jan-March
Vernacular /Local Name	Neeli – bel	Fruiting Period	Jan-March
Altitude	Upto 1000m	Fruit Type	Capsule
Habit	Climber	Fruit Details	Fruit a 4-valved capsule, about 1cm across, each valve with 1 seed. Seed with wispy hairs attached.
Habitat	Common; as cultivated twiner, occasionally found as an escape. Widely cultivated and naturalized in many parts of the world.	Bark Type	Smooth
Distribution	An American species now widely cultivated and naturalized in Africa and Asia.	Bark Details	Hairless greenish stem
Distribution in Haryana	Ambala, Gurgaon, Karnal, Kurukshetra, Morni-Pinjore, Rohtak, Yamuna Nagar	Origin	Exotic
		Leaf Type	Compound
		Leaf Arrangement	Alternate (leaves born singly along stem)
		Leaf Shape	Palmate
Description of Species	Perennial, twiners. Leaves ovate to orbicular in outline, deeply 5 – 7 palmately lobed; each lobe ovate – elliptic or lanceolate, narrowed at both ends, retuse or mucronate at apex, entire; basal one often obliquely 2 – partite. Flowers purple or rarely white, in 1 – 3 flowered, pedunculate cymes. Calyx 4 – 7 mm long; sepals unequal, ovate, mucronate or obtuse. Corolla white or purple with red – purple inside, broadly funnel – shaped. Fruits subglobose, smooth; seeds white – pubescent.	Leaf Details	Leaves ovate to orbicular in outline, deeply 5 – 7 palmately lobed; each lobe ovate – elliptic or lanceolate, narrowed at both ends, retuse or mucronate at apex, entire; basal one often obliquely 2 – partite.

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