Mexico, Y030

Copyright 1998-2017 Yoshiaki Yoneda

The wild strain of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico was supplied through Professor D. A. Austin's aid.
There is a reddish tinge in the hypocotyls. Individual variation in color is big in the openings of the cotyledonary lobes and in the color of the lower surface of the cotyledons. There are hardly any epidermal hairs on the hypocotyl, and slightly more on the cotyledonary petiole. The leaf is three-pointed and of the main wide lobe type. The plant is vigorous. In Shizuoka-city, blooming under natural conditions begins at the beginning of October. The corolla is blue tinged with purple, the flower tube is white, and the flower is about 6 cm in diameter and 6 cm in length. A distinguishing characteristic is that the light-brown epidermal hairs grow thick to the calyx. The flower-opening time is normal. Generally one flower is observed per peduncle, but there can be two.

Mexico Y030-1 Panoramic view	Mexico Y030-2 Panoramic view	Mexico Y030-3 Cotyledons	Mexico Y030-4 Cotyledonary petiole and hypocotyl
Mexico Y030-5 Cotyledon and 1st leaf	Mexico Y030-6 From 1st leaf to 4th leaf	Mexico Y030-7 Leaf	Mexico Y030-8 Leaf
Mexico Y030-9 Flower bud 2days before flower opening	Mexico Y030-10 Flower bud 1 day before flower-opening	Mexico Y030-11 Leaf and flower	Mexico Y030-12 Flower
Mexico Y030-13 Calyx of the opening flower	Mexico Y030-14 Withered flower	Mexico Y030-15 Young capsule	Mexico Y030-16 Capsule