convulvulus

Also capable of appreciating the merits of art she disliked, she once urged her father to alert the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston to the availability of a macabre Audubon oil painting of “dead birds, some in an overturned basket, some on the ground, a spray of purple convulvulus on the left background.”

The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

Also capable of appreciating the merits of art she disliked, she once urged her father to alert the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston to the availability of a macabre Audubon oil painting of “dead birds, some in an overturned basket, some on the ground, a spray of purple convulvulus on the left background.”

The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

It might interest you to know that this is called water convulvulus – and in tropical countries like mine, they grow prolifically in the drains and ditches with stagnant water.

Steamed Five-Spice Calamari & Water Spinach Salad 2007

I might take her head, turn it round, press it to my lips, encircle my neck in her arms, she continued to sleep like a watch that does not stop, like an animal that goes on living whatever position you assign to it, like a climbing plant, a convulvulus which continues to thrust out its tendrils whatever support you give it.

The Captive 2003

A curtain two yards wide will require 1,135 stitches, which will allow ten patterns of the convulvulus, and the two borders; to this, every 102 stitches added will make one wreath more, nearly equalling in width the sixth of a yard.

The Ladies' Work-Book Containing Instructions In Knitting, Crochet, Point-Lace, etc. Unknown