Hedge bindweed, 10th of February 2016.

Hedge bindweed (Calystegia sepium) is a weed. A climbing plant with beautiful flowers. Its trumpet-like flowers are called sympetalous which means that all the petals are "glued together" in a continuous "sheet" of plant tissue. In the book that I write with Primož Ziherl there is an illustration of a flexibility of such structure which I show below. The illustration shows the flower of the hedge bindweed one day before opening (left), completely opened (middle) and "wrapped" in a late afternoon (right).

The flowers of hedge bindweed that I painted are intensely violet-blue and purple-red, so intensely and "kitschy" that they look almost as if they do not belong in nature. To paint them, I used the kitschiest colors from the watercolor palette for primary school kids.

The illustration of a hedge bindweed shown below originates from the journal Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe (1845-1888) that I already wrote about in relation to the illustration of >> brugmansia flower. I cannot recognize the author of the illustration.

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Last updated on 10th of February 2016.