吉本ばななの 'Goodbye Tsugumi' を読んでいます。
The row of old inns that lined the narrow street leading to the bus stop. The withered shades of the bindweed flowers that had been planted everywhere, all along the street. My memories will remain here, closed within this dry noon.
"bindweed" はつる性の植物だと見当は付きますが何の花でしょう？ 辞書を見ます。
・Collins Dictionary: Bindweed is a wild plant that winds itself around other plants and makes it difficult for them to grow.: The large white bells of greater bindweed are climbing all over the countryside.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: a wild plant with white and pink flowers that twists itself around other plants as it grows: Common names include bindweed and morning glory, both names shared with other closely related genera.
・Merriam-Webster: any of various twining plants (especially genus Convolvulus of the morning-glory family) that mat or interlace with plants among which they grow: Cleavers, nettles and bindweed, rejected as too thuggish, were pulled.
小説の舞台は日本なのでここでは朝顔を指しているのでしょう。
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