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Originally Posted by 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.
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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.