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A tropical American climbing plant of the morning glory family, with large, sweet-smelling white flowers that open at dusk and close at midday.
Ipomoea alba, family Convolvulaceae
‘The summer nights breeze wafted through the place stirring the many silk hangings, I could still smell the beautiful scents of roses and moonflowers upon the breeze.’
‘Also consider sweet peas, and, for evening blooms, moonflowers.’
‘At night, walking slowly through a starlit, stone-covered path, you can happen upon a fragrant moonflower vine covered with large, white saucer-shaped flowers or sweet-scented night-blooming jasmine.’
‘She bought a tomato cage, a large plastic flower-pot saucer (the kind that looks like terra-cotta), some string and vines, such as clematis, moonflower or morning glory.’
‘Last weekend we planted moonflowers, next week we're on to sunflowers.’
‘Put in a sweet-smelling night-bloomer like moonflower or Nicotiana sylvestris around your spa.’
‘Plants with large fragrant flowers that bloom at dusk are referred to as moonflowers.’
‘The night air was cool and soothing, carrying the scent of jasmine and moonflowers into the living room.’
‘Darion found Bonnie on her balcony the next night, playing moodily with a moonflower off the vine that clung in an intricate arrangement around the French doors leading out.’