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Bete, Tony and Beth - here I have P Vitifolia which is a gorgeous red and has taken over all the neighbour's gardens as it grows 60ft in length. The seeds I bought from Jungle Seeds weren't very fresh as only 1 germinated, but that 1 plant has colonized the neighbourhood. Each year we hack it back to about 10 ft and although it staggers a bit, it comes back - a gorgeous monster! It rarely sets seed but I have a seed pod on it now - see my gallery!

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Is the vitifolia edible, Cassie? They look like little watermelons!

This is Taxo, from P. mixto, which I mentioned on the last page.

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I have a vitifolia and tripartita mollisima ,banana tacso.

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Tacso = Taxo. Try it with milk products, it really helps the flavour. BTW, "Taxo" is the generic Spanish catchall term for the banana passionfruits.

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Really starting to go Passi-CRAZY!! I only have 2 p. caerulea vines...one is really little.
They were volunteers, I am hoping that they fruit - but the Gulf Frit are visiting them, so maybe not...
I cannot find any fresh fruits locally to start trying to germinate.
I bought a pack of & am trying to germinate some p. incarnata.
I did the 24 hr soak & some in the Orange juice soak & I have read that it still can take a while to pop.

I bought a Scarlet Passiflora vine on a trellis 2 weeks ago & have all kinds of new growth. No flowers though.

Am looking for other Passi plants to run along my SW fenceline, the different varieties produce such diverse & beautiful flowers!!!

Love the pics everyone!!! :) ~Cheryl

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Haha Che, same as with Bananas, U get "infected" in a hipp:ha:
I recived Passiflora seeds from sunfish some time ago and now I have beautifull and shiny green vines everywere. They are pretty easy to grow from the seeds
edulis

caeruela

whan can I hope to see flowers? next year?

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Cheryl got a critter on pic #2 Caterpillar critter :^)

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There should be lots of bee's working the flower's if not try to hand pollinate with a small brush or Q-TIP

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Here are a couple I have in East Texas:

Passiflora Caerulea


Passiflora incarnata


And here are some vines I have here in Central Texas - no flowers yet:





~JaNan

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Hope to get flowers this summer

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Fruit

Bellotti


Frederick's


Edulis

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Unknown about to bloom

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Pictures from the book Passionflowers of the World

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BTW first sprout on mollissima
:nanadrink:

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Were this seed I sent ?

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Here it is

:woohoonaner:

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I haven't gotten any to sprout.What;s going on here.