Japanese Morning Glory Seed

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"Lips Together, Teeth Apart": Through July 30 at the Westport Country Playhouse, 25 Powers Court, off Route 1, Westport. A comedy about two straight couples who spend a weekend in July on Fire Island. Contains adult content and language. Tickets $35-65, available at (203) 227-4177 or at the box office at 25 Powers Court Road. Information available on Facebook (Westport Country Playhouse), Twitter (@WCPlayhouse) or www.westportplayhouse.org. LGBT Night Out: 6:30 p.m., Thursday, July 14, at the Westport Country Playhouse. The evening will feature a preshow party for the LGBT communities and allies in partnership with Norwalk''s Triangle Community Center, followed by a performance of "Lips Together, Teeth Apart." Information and tickets available on Facebook (Westport Country Playhouse), Twitter (@WCPlayhouse), (203) 227-4177 or www.westportplayhouse.org "The Unforgettable Whatshisname": 8 p.m. July 15 to July 23. The Ridgefield Theatre Barn, 37 Halpin Lane, Ridgefield, presents the story of two World War II veteran''s accidental meeting fifty five years after the war. Reluctant to admit the fact of their faded youth, the two conspire to relive the past, resulting in a in a daring and touching venture, leading to the realization of the joys of life itself. Tickets $15. Cabaret seating. Bring food and beverage. Information: www.ridgefieldtheatrebarn.org or (203) 431-9850 American Songbook: "The Music of World War II": 2:30 p.m. beginning Friday July 29 through Aug. 13, at the Powerhouse Theater in New Canaan, 677 South Ave., Waveny Park, New Canaan. The Town Players present New Canaan''s annual summer show, celebrating the music and popular culture of the American home front during WWII. Tickets $25/adults, $20 /students and seniors. Tickets and information call (203) 966-7371. Summer Reading for Adults at Norwalk Public Library: Through Aug. 27. Write a short review about a book you read recently, including the name of the book and what you thought about it, to enter a weekly raffle drawing. Review forms available in the library, or post your review on Facebook, Tweet it to @norwalklibct, or e-mail it to informationnpl@norwalkpubliclibrary.org. Information: www.norwalkpubliclibrary.org or (203) 899-2780 ext. 15136 The Wiz: 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 14 and Friday July 15, at the Wilton HIgh School Clune Center. The Wilton Children''s Summer Theatre presents two performances of The Wiz, a modern performance based on the story of the Wizard of Oz.

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As the name implies, morning glory flowers, which are funnel-shaped, open in the morning, allowing them to be pollinated by Hummingbirds, butterflies, bees, and other daytime insects and birds as well as Hawkmoth at dusk for longer blooming variants. The flower typically lasts for a single morning and dies in the afternoon. New flowers bloom each day. The flowers usually start to fade a couple of hours before the petals start showing visible curling. They prefer full sun throughout the day and mesic soils. In cultivation, most are treated as perennial plants in tropical areas and as annual plants in colder climates, but some species tolerate winter cold. Some moonflowers, which flower at night, are also in the morning glory family.

Morning glory is also called asagao (in Japanese, a compound of 朝 asa "morning" and 顔 kao "face"). A rare brownish-coloured variant known as Danjuro is very popular. It was first known in China for its medicinal uses, due to the laxative properties of its seeds. It was introduced to the Japanese in the 9th century, and they were first to cultivate it as an ornament. During the Edo Period, it became a very popular ornamental flower. Aztec priests in Mexico were also known to use the plant’s hallucinogenic properties. (see Rivea corymbosa).

Ancient Mesoamerican civilizations used the morning glory species Ipomoea alba to convert the latex from the Castilla elastica tree and also the guayule plant to produce bouncing rubber balls. The sulfur in the morning glory’s juice served to vulcanize the rubber, a process pre-dating Charles Goodyear’s discovery by at least 3,000 years.[1] Because of their fast growth, twining habit, attractive flowers, and tolerance for poor, dry soils, some morning glories are excellent vines for creating summer shade on building walls when trellised, thus keeping the building cooler and reducing heating and cooling costs.

Popular varieties in contemporary western cultivation include the Morning Glory "Sunspots" "Heavenly Blue", the moonflower, the cypress vine, and the cardinal climber. The cypress vine is a hybrid, with the cardinal climber as one parent. In some places such as Australian bushland morning glories develop thick roots and tend to grow in dense thickets. They can quickly spread by way of long creeping stems. By crowding out, blanketing and smothering other plants, morning glory has turned into a serious invasive weed problem.

American homes and gardens

One of the more ordinary forms of Japanese morning glories, and one more apt to be found in the ordinary mixture of seeds, is Euphrosyne, an immense flower ...

Vaughan's seed store

Vaughan's *• Special Mixture" of Japanese Morning Glories. ... Grows very easily from seed ana areeoVered with flowers throughout the whole season. ...

Maule's seed catalogue

These flowers will not be all double, although the seed Is pure, for there Is always a ... Imperial Japanese Morning Glory, Single Mixed. NICOTIANAS. ...

The standard cyclopedia of horticulture, a discussion for the amateur, and the professional and commercial grower, of the kinds, characteristics and methods of cultivation of the species of plants grown in the regions of the United States and Canada for ornament, for fancy, for fruit and for vegetables; with keys to the natural families and genera, descriptions of the horticultural capabilities of the states and provinces and dependent islands, and sketches of eminent horticulturists

The "moonflower" and the "Japanese morning- glories" particularly are ... Horsfallix, rarely produce seed and arc rooted from stem-cuttings with great ...

Scientific American, Supplement

All hybridizations that produced seed were made with the white moonflower as the male parent and the Japanese morning glory as the female. ...