Morning Glory Family

Resin Glycosides from the Morning Glory Family... 

Plate 1. Ethnobotany and Background. Convolvulaceae, the botanical name for the morning glory family, derives from the Latin convolve, referring to its growth of intertwining vines (A Heavenly blue, Ipomoea tricolor). The purgative properties of the Mexican roots were readily accepted in Europe when introduced in the sixteenth century, since pre-Christian folk tradition had already proclaimed the virtues of skammonia as found in Dioscorides work De Materia Medica, ca. 50-68 a.d. 

The botanical name Convolvulaceae for the morning glory family derives from the Latin convolvo, meaning interlaced, and describes a growth pattern of intertwining vines wrapping around a support, and is characteristic of the majority of the species... 

IV. Order Tubiflorae or Polemoniales.—Convolvulacea or Morning glory Family.—Frequently herbaceous, more rarely sub-woody. 

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