I Got A Passionflower Vine!

[baymule]

Passionflowers or Maypops are wildflowers here. I haven’t seen a wild one in a long time. So I was delighted to find one at a nursery plant half off sale. It is not the purple like the wild varieties, it is burgundy. Now I just have to figure out where to put it. LOL

 

[thistlebloom]

It's a beauty!

 

[Nyboy]

climbing up your new porch.

 

[Carol Dee]

Very pretty.

 

[so lucky]

Oh, I love that color!

 

[Nyboy]

Does it produce fruit ?

 

[baymule]

Yes, they produce a fruit, a green lemon shaped fruit of gelatinous clear stuff. Never ate one, but wildlife like them. Supposedly you can make a good jelly from the Maypops. The leaves can be made into a tea that is sedative.

There is a purple one in a lady's yard not far from here. I am going to inquire about a cutting.

 

[Nyboy]

Bring her some eggs bet you leave with a lot of slips

 

[ninnymary]

I like that burgundy much more than the purple one!

Mary

 

[canesisters]

BEAUTIFUL!!!
A friend gave me a vine this summer and I was THRILLED to see it start blooming already.