The hoist plants are a family of krautigen plants, it have usually winding rung. The winding Suchbewegung of the rung comes by the fact to conditions that they grow at a side faster than at the other one. If the rung finds a stop, for example a branch or a Zaundraht, then it continues to grow along this support.

Description

The blooms are The grew together. The blooms are usually large and funnel or radial. The impulses lead (clear) a milk with most kinds.

Systematics

The hoist plants (Convolvulaceae) are everywhere in the Tropics, Subtropen and into the moderate climate zones resident. The family arranged into two Unterfamilien and consists of approximately 60 kinds with altogether about 1600 kinds.

In Central Europe domestic kinds of hoist

To the family our kinds of hoist domestic in Central Europe belong:

• Field bindweeds (Convolvulus)
  • Field bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis)
• Fence hoists (Calystegia)
  • Genuine fence hoist (Calystegia sepium)
  • Beautiful fence hoist (Calystegia pulchra)
  • Beach hoist (Calystegia soldanella)

Devil linen thread (Cuscuta)

Arranged in the family also the parasitische kind the devil linen thread, also silks is mentioned, (Cuscuta). In this kind there are 145 kinds. With its strongly modified building of blooms it is placed by some authors also into its own family.

Splendor hoists (Ipomoea)

The species-richest kind of the family is, with 500 kinds, those of the splendor hoists (Ipomoea). Some Ipomoea kinds are cultivated as ornamental plants, for example the magenta splendor hoist (Ipomoea purpurea). The sweet potato (Ipomoea of batates) with its tubers serves in the Tropics and Subtropen as important food; The water spinach (Ipomoea aquatica) is pulled as vegetable.

Important kinds

Further important kinds and kinds are:

• Calonyction moon hoists
• Convolvulus - with 100 kinds
  • Jalape (Convolvulus jalapa)
• Argyreia - with 90 kinds
  • Hawaiian wood rose (Argyreia nervosa)
• Jacquemontia - with 90 kinds
• Erycibe - with 75 kinds
• Merremia - with 70 kinds.
  • Wood rose (Merremia tube-pink)
• Turbina
  • Ololiqui (Turbina corymbosa)

Humbertioideae

The Unterfamilie of the Humbertioideae is a monotypical Taxon: only kind is the Humbertia domestic on Madagascar madagascariensis.

Former families

Former families today into the family the Convolvulaceae are integrated: Cressaceae, Cuscutaceae, Dichondraceae, Erycibaceae, Poranaceae.

Contents materials

Some representatives of the family contain poisonous and/or psychoaktive alkaloids, among other things and related substances, as they are to be found also in the ergot mushroom.

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