sunfish

help identifying passion vine.

D_&_T

Wild Looking!

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buzzwinder

Looks like Passiflora caerulea, I Googled it ! Passilfora. pretty close.

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buzzwinder

Beautiful flower by the way, allmost bought a plant at local nursery earlier this year, but waited for mamas OK, she said yes and when I went to get it, ALAS it was gone, My Loss, going to try seeds though next spring and see what I can do.

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sunfish

That is what I was thinking. This was supposed to be yellow passion fruit, flavicarpa. The leaves have five to seven lobes ,all the information I found about flavicarpa it's leaves are three lobed. My first time growing passion vines so I don't know much about them.

lt_eggbeater

Buzzwinder is right it's definatley a Passiflora caerulea I have tons of them in my yard. Very hardy, grow fast and lots of blooms but the fruit is tasteless. They will also draw alot of butterflys.

Richard

True.

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damaclese

Bing an avid grower of passiflora i concur with you its defiantly caerulea and yes the fruit is not good but what this particular sub.ss is uesed often to pollinate some of the semi sterile subs such as passiflora Phoenicia and such which will only fruit with the pollen of other Passiflora
this is a link to one of the most extensive passiflora site on the net i think its over 3000 pages of good info Passiflora - Passion flowers - Passion flower

just thought for the sake of being over the top i would add this:
Passiflora caerulea, the common passion flower is very popular & widespread in the US and UK as well as rest of Europe. It prefers a South facing slightly sheltered dry spot with free-draining soil. It is easy to grow and even if taken back to the ground by a hard frost will usually come back again. Nevertheless it is best to protect it from frost for it's first year. The fruit are inedible when green but they may be eaten when they have ripened and turned orange - though they do not generally taste that great.

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sunfish

Thanks for all the information. I bought this plant thinking it was yellow passion fruit. The fruit is what I am after. How do I know which passion vines the caerulea will pollinate.

damaclese

go to the site link i posted there is info on there to help you know wich plants to grow together insadentaly there are alot of pasaflora that produce yellow fruits pasaflora Laurifolia or comminly known as Warer lemon is a prity good yellow fruited viriaty:
Medium sized, ovaloid fruit, usually with a deep orange skin and white-yellow, extremely juicy pulp. The water lemon has an excellent perfumy-mild taste, without the tartness of the common passion fruit. A not widely known, and very underrated passion fruit. i have this one in the propagator now still wating for it to pop!
Description: Vigorously growing vine up to 30+ feet long. Grows best in slightly drier humid climates. It isn't too picky about soil or water requirements other than liking ground moisture year-round.

Hardiness: Tropical, will not stand any frost.

Propagation: Almost always grown from seeds, but can be propagated by cuttings. Bottom heating the seeds at 70-80F can result in germination at 1-2 weeks, at lower temperatures seeds can take up to 10 weeks to germinate.

Native Range: Native to tropical America. It is an invasive plant in tropical regions and has spread to many other parts of the world. Only occasionally cultivated, but fruits are usually available in markets wherever the vine grows wild.

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