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moonflower: see morning glory morning glory, common name for members of the Convolvulaceae, a family of herbs, shrubs, and small trees (many of them climbing forms) inhabiting warm regions, especially the tropics of America and Asia. The family is characterized by milky sap. ..... Click the link for more information. . How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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eat and do this in remembrance of the afternoon beneath the lyric blossoms of the chestnut tree where bees drink their own sweet nectar from the stamen's cup, and my son, this child who's seen the underside of me, like a moonflower knowing all there is to know of night, fingers out with hands like startled stars to touch the ruby stain in his great grandmother's palm, stilt clinging to the Cream of my body with his soft mouth, and in this giving and receiving, there is water into wine. There is a children's book, moonflower, written by the Wild Gardener, Peter Loewer, an Asheville native, that you must read if you plant moonflowers. Other members of the Ipomoea family produce flowers, including Morning Glory, Moonflowers, Blue Dawn and Cypress Vine. |
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