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Ipomoea lobata
Just one of the thousands of wild flowers, many of which have been domesticated because people like them, which help to provide food and shelter for the millions of animals which live on our planet. This one is also known as Firecracker Vine, Fire Vine & Exotic Love Vine. These plants originated in Mexico and/or Brazil, depending on which source you read!
Garden
Thanks for the ID VineWorld.
We have to remember that all plants were originally wild but many have been domesticated and some cultivated, producing different varieties. In our garden cultivated plants rarely survive, so what grows, if it has nice flowers we let it grow. Basically our gardens are orchards as we have lots of fruit trees. During hot and dry spells nothing much grows but when it rains everything starts sprouting up. Our neighbours rarely rotovate so their orchard is currently a mass of flowering weeds which are attracting all kinds of migrating birds, butterflies and moths.
Spotted on Sep 15, 2012
Submitted on Dec 20, 2012
