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Passiflora incarnata
Vine. Free-standing in absence of something to climb on. Approximately 18 inches tall. Leaves. Simple, Alternate. Palmate, trilobed. Flower buds. Sepals approximately 1 inch long, with a soft horn-like sub-apical appendage approximately 1/8th inch long Flowers. Sepals and petals surmounted by elaborate fringelike purple-banded corona. Three styles with enlarged stigmas arch above five yellowish anthers.
In open field
Spotted on Aug 1, 2015
Submitted on Aug 1, 2015
7 Comments
Cool, thanks
I'll let you know if I get fruit.
I've never tried to grow these guys from seeds - when we had them fruiting, we were too busy eating them :) But seeds would be worth a try!
If this plant produces fruit, I'd be happy to send you some seeds.
I'm not overly optimistic; in the past, I haven't seen many fruit.
[I grew up in Brisbane, Australia. We had a large mango tree in the backyard. A vine, similar to, if not P. incarnata vine grew up it and produced fruit regularly. We were spoiled!]
My favorite tropical fruit. Living in oregon means I don't usually have enough heat for them - but I planted two this year... would love to have the native US variety - so your spotting caught my eye
No fruit yet :-)
Not sure it it will develop fruit but there was a carpenter bee working the flower so I'm going to keep an eye on it.
No pics of fruit?