Convolvulus Cneorum.

Other species in this genus are vines. Profuse pink buds arranged loosely on panicles. The buds unfurl, producing white cone-shaped flowers with a yellow throat. The grey-green leaves are covered in fine hairs giving the plant a silvery appearance.

Kingdom Plantae

Phylum Tracheophyta

Class Magnoliopsida

Order Solanales

Family Convolvulaceae

Genus Convolvulus

Species Cneorum

It will look like this when it escapes the pot.

Bundles of buds and a single flower for now.

A closer look.

Five petals fused together to form a funnel-shaped corolla.

Buds

Purple buds collect in loose panicles on the end of a stem.

Funnel shaped flower and fine hairs.

Five anthers with two thread like stigma and a yellow center.

A closer look at the business end of the flower.

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