Very interesting and unusual! Thank you.

The vies and flowers are reduced in size from lack of water and shallow pot
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How cool!

Interesting Keith....it is not typical for flowers to reduce in size as I recall from bonsai reading in the past, although leaves reduce very easily by being cramped.....that I have personal experience with. I tried one Ipomoea previously, but it was not impressed with my conditions at all....a shame :o) Dan

Keith,

That's a proper GW handle namesake, isn't it? Nice plant!

Dan,

Doesn't it make sense that if the plant's reduced in its ability to grow, in all ways, it will have reduced growth, in all aspects, at least in terms of flower or foliage quantity, size and lushness? Isn't that how most of these pachycaul (or just about any plant, for that matter) plants work?

I don't know enough about them to say one way or the other, it just makes sense, but so does a nickel.

is it related to morning glory? im in a class that one of the plants were studying morning glories and the first name in latin are the same

Yes, it's in the same genus as morning glories, hence the same genus name.

Isn't there a song about the girl from Ipomoea?

I really know nothing about the way this type of plant would respond, but in terms of classical bonsai while the leaves reduce dramatically (or can at least) flowers of things like crabapple or Wisteria do not reduce in size :o) Dan

If this plant were in a large pot rich with organic matter and watered frequently the vines would over take the caudex and be covered in flowers. Mine has little soil in the pot and watered so infrequently there's not enough resources to keep the flowers their normal size.