Japanese Bindweed & Morning Glory Have Siblings😆? ヒルガオとアサガオの兄弟😆

Japanese follows English.　英語の後に日本語が続きます。

These pale pink flowers are Japanese bindweed. I've seen them on roadsides every morning for the last month.

Japanese bindweed ヒルガオ

The purple flowers below are morning glories although I rarely see them open early morning....

Morning glory still asleep?
まだ寝てるアサガオ？

Finally waking up....
おはようございます｡｡｡

Morning glory and Japanese bindweed are in the same family and this is more obvious when they are said in Japanese.

Morning glory             =    "morning face" 
Japanese bindweed  =    "afternoon face"

See? It's clear that they are in the same "face" family. The thing is that the treatment of these siblings are terribly different, i.e., morning glory beautifully planted in gardens while Japanese bindweed abandoned on roadside...

They have two siblings in Japan, "evening face"and "night face," meaning "bottle gourd" and "moonflower" respectively. So, we have here the four siblings of the FACE family; "morning face," "afternoon face,"  "evening face," and "night face"!!

Of the four, however, "evening face (or bottle gourd)," an ingredient of sushi, "kanpyo (dried shavings of calabash)," is actually not a sibling because it's not in the bindweed but gourd family as shown in the English family name.....

Now I have seen two of the four real and quasi siblings in person, I'm wondering where I can find the other two......

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ピンクが「ヒルガオ」、紫が「アサガオ」です。ヒルガオは道端にごろごろ咲いていて、アサガオは公園に植えられていました。待遇の差がひどすぎる😭！！

朝顔、昼顔、夕顔、夜顔、と四つあるそうですが、夕顔はウリ科で後はヒルガオ科。夕顔はホントは家族ではないんですね。でも、まだ会えてない夕顔と夜顔にとっても会いたくなりました😄

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