Ipomoea Aquatica Flower
Ipomoea aquatica is a semiaquatic, tropical plant grown as a vegetable for its tender shoots and leaves. It is found throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the world, although it is not known where it originated. This plant is known in English as water spinach, river spinach, water morning glory, water convolvulus, or by the more ambiguous names Chinese spinach, Chinese Watercress, Chinese convolvulus, swamp cabbage or kangkong in Southeast Asia. Occasionally, it has also been mistakenly called "kale" in English, although kale is a variety of cabbage and is completely unrelated to water spinach, which is a species of morning glory.
It is known as phak bung (ผักบุ้ง) in Thai and Laotian, eng chhai in Teochew and Hokkien, ong choy (蕹菜) in Cantonese, kongxincai (空心菜) in Mandarin Chinese, rau muống in Vietnamese, kangkong in Tagalog, kangkung in Indonesian, Malay and Sinhalese, gazun (ကန္စြန္း) in Burmese, trokuon (ត្រកួន) in Khmer, kolmou xak in Assamese,"வள்ளல்" (vallal) in Tamil, kalmi saag in Hindi, kalmi shak (কলমি শাক) in Bengali, Thooti Koora in Telugu, Kalama Saga in Odia, hayoyo in Ghana. In Suriname it is known as dagoeblad or dagublad.
