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- Title
Moon-Flower ( Ipomoea alba, Convolvulaceae)-Medicine, Rubber Enabler, and Ornamental: A Review.
- Authors
Austin, Daniel
- Abstract
Moon-Flower ( Ipomoea alba , Convolvulaceae)-Medicine, Rubber Enabler, and Ornamental: A Review. Native to the Americas, moon-flower ( Ipomoea alba) was first recorded by Europeans with its Taino common name in the 1520s. Subsequently, the species was reported from India with a Malayalam name in the 1660s. In the time between, the climbers had been transported around the world. A dominant reason for the spread was because of the medicinal uses the Europeans had learned in the Americas. Although the Spanish report of I. alba being used in making rubber in the Americas was published in the 1520s, no one realized it was that species until the 1800s. In part because of the early spread from its region of nativity into the Old World, scientists in Europe were confused about the origin of the species. As moon-flower was overshadowed by other medicinal species in the 1800s, people began to utilize the climbers for horticultural purposes.
- Subjects
INDIA; MOONFLOWER; CONVOLVULACEAE; MEDICINAL plants; ORNAMENTAL horticulture
- Publication
Economic Botany, 2013, Vol 67, Issue 3, p244
- ISSN
0013-0001
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12231-013-9240-9