Genus: Passiflora

The Passion Flower was given its common name by Catholic missionaries to South America and the genus is made up of 430 species originating mostly in tropical areas of the world.

The passion fruit from the species Passiflora edulis is grown commercially in Australia, Mexico, Hawaii and the US and exported all over the world as a popular cooking ingredient and juice.

Passiflora plants are known as climbers but there are some shrub and tree forms.

Members growing plants in this genus

  • Aki

    Aki

    joined 31 Jan, 2007

    2 plants

  • Netty

    Netty

    joined 10 Jul, 2007

    14 plants

  • snappycroc

    Snappycroc

    joined 18 Jul, 2007

    1 plant

  • pyerike

    Pyerike

    joined 18 Oct, 2007

    1 plant

  • bdaqueen

    Bdaqueen

    joined 6 Nov, 2007

    2 plants

  • DaveDarwent

    Davedarwent

    joined 11 Nov, 2007

    40 plants

  • PaulDenman

    Pauldenman

    joined 25 Nov, 2007

    4 plants

  • AndreaRichter

    Andrearichter

    joined 15 Nov, 2007

    71 plants

  • UncleEric

    Uncleeric

    joined 1 Jan, 2008

    2 plants

  • maxgarden

    Maxgarden

    joined 4 Dec, 2007

    68 plants

  • RachelScott_Renouf

    Rachelscott..

    joined 3 Feb, 2008

    35 plants

  • DiOhio

    Diohio

    joined 12 Mar, 2008

    233 plants

  • Buzzbee

    Buzzbee

    joined 23 Dec, 2007

    164 plants

  • turts

    Turts

    joined 22 Mar, 2008

    2 plants

  • Xela

    Xela

    joined 1 Mar, 2008

    220 plants

  • majeekahead

    Majeekahead

    joined 18 Oct, 2007

    398 plants

  • TasteyG

    Tasteyg

    joined 12 May, 2008

    54 plants

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    Mifsa001

    joined 24 Jun, 2008

    1 plant

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    Mlree

    joined 4 Jul, 2008

    1 plant

Comments:

charlie727

Charlie727

20 Jul, 2008

 

fab pic-love the colours

On photo - Passion Vine

Chrispook

Chrispook

4 Jul, 2008

 

Yes Marguerite we have a continental climate, hot summers and cold winters. So we can expect some nights of -20 C in the winter and sometimes in the day too, and then even colder at night. We have to grow hardy things, or else we can take them into storage for the winter, likke Dahlias, Cannas, Gladioli etc.

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flcrazy

Flcrazy

4 Jul, 2008

 

These look similar to a cultivar we can grow here in my zone 7 garden, Passiflora caerulea 'Clear Sky'. I have two others that will survive our winters, one is native in our area that I eat the fruit from, it is very tangy. Luckily you would be able to grow all of the passiflora cultivars.

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Marguerite

Marguerite

4 Jul, 2008

 

Do you get the frost? Otherwise they are quite hardy.

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Chrispook

Chrispook

3 Jul, 2008

 

Beautiful flowers. I regret they are not hardy enough to grow in my garden.

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Gillian

Gillian

30 May, 2008

 

Beautiful!

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gee

Gee

23 May, 2008

 

Hi Fruity! This is the passiflora that bears fruit, it is known as the Hardy Blue Passion Flower. I also user to have them in my garden, they are lush :)

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Fruity

Fruity

21 May, 2008

 

Thanks, I didn't know what it was when I first moved into this house and I have been hacking at it because it was strangling a fur tree, it is actually growing over an Olive Tree - when these flowers came out I was very excited and squealed with delight hehehe

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jacque

Jacque

21 May, 2008

 

Looks Great Cant wait 4 mine to look this good Fruity :D

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bren

Bren

17 May, 2008

 

if you are in the UK yes definitely in a pot,to be moved undercover when it gets cooler.

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treesandthings

Treesandthi..

17 May, 2008

 

Hi just looking through one of my books and it says that its frost tender to 15 degrees. Unless you have a really sheltered south facing wall close to the house that stays quite warm during the winter I would be inclined to plant in a large pot that can be moved under cover.

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TasteyG

Tasteyg

13 May, 2008

 

This such a beautiful photograph!

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TammieLee

Tammielee

13 May, 2008

 

WOW!

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TasteyG

Tasteyg

12 May, 2008

 

Thank you. It came out nice. I can't take too much credit, though. The flower is beautiful and unusual and the camera captured it. I just happened to be in the right place at the right time.

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Janette

Janette

12 May, 2008

 

Beautiful photo

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Chrispook

Chrispook

12 May, 2008

 

Amazing photo

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lil

Lil

12 May, 2008

 

great picture and flower

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Michaella

Michaella

28 Apr, 2008

 

Lovely picture.

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Lori

Lori

20 Mar, 2008

 

So the passiflora just goes where it likes? lol I've only seen this vine growing in greenhouses, aren't you lucky??? ...love the colour... very exotic.

flcrazy

Flcrazy

15 Mar, 2008

 

Thanks ! The shrub in the background is an euonymus 'aureo-marginata'

DiOhio

Diohio

15 Mar, 2008

 

LOVE this one !! Where is that beautiful variegated leaf color coming from?

DiOhio

Diohio

14 Mar, 2008

 

Lily that may be a different kind of passionfruit that you eat. These are edible but they have to be very ripe or else they'll make you sick (I'm told). I've never eaten one but I do save them for the seeds. These are almost hollow. The seeds have more 'fruit' around them than anything else but it's just like an embryo around a seed, not much more. The chipmunks love them though !

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DiOhio

Diohio

14 Mar, 2008

 

Thank you Jacque and Lily. Passiflora needs warmth to really get going and it's always one of those plants that I wait for and I used to worry if it made it through the winter. Now I know it's just a late one. It's probably the end of June before it gets blooms. It's well worth the wait though. Makes me think I'm in the tropics !

jacque

Jacque

14 Mar, 2008

 

You Can EAT THEM! wow ididnt no that?

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lil

Lil

14 Mar, 2008

 

this has me going WOW and waiting on summer !!

lil

Lil

14 Mar, 2008

 

did you enjoy eating them ? I like them whizzed up with other fruits.

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jacque

Jacque

14 Mar, 2008

 

All Your Photos are Fantastic Diohio Please keep Posting :)

Carolyn

Carolyn

8 Feb, 2008

 

Great photo, one of my favourite flowers, very sculptural :)

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NancyM

Nancym

4 Feb, 2008

 

I have never seen anything quite like this before....it looks like a sculpture.
What a delight!

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RachelScott_Renouf

Rachelscott..

3 Feb, 2008

 

thank you! i love photography aswell as gardening ;o)
i love your mini pic (had a look at the bigger version before - now thats a lovely photo, and such a beautiful house too! i am looking forward to looking at the rest of you pics later ;o)

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LittleLarford

Littlelarford

3 Feb, 2008

 

This set of photos is absolutely stunning. How do you achieve such wonderful results?

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Tussiemussie

Tussiemussie

7 Aug, 2007

 

Hi Charlie, I wish I knew how to tell them apart, they look the same only the label tells me one of mine is male! Perhaps they have different flowers. Apparently you only need one male for 5 or 6 female plants.
The flowers tend to come under the leaves so they are best grown over a large pergola or equivalent then the bees can get in underneath. They are useful because the fruit ripens much later than other fruits.

charlie

Charlie

6 Aug, 2007

 

i have grown from seeds about 35 kiwi plants theyare three years old now asyet no flowers how do i tell which sex the plants are.

charlie

Charlie

5 Aug, 2007

 

yesyou can if youcancleanthe seeds then cover them lightly in seed box in a few weeks seedings should appear when large enough to handle pot them on i grow mineon in 12in dia pots and put them after frost ive done thisfor past few years you could also grow them on south facing wall mulch over roots to protect from frost they say you can graft them on to acommon passiflora for hardiness why not try them all like me.

Tussiemussie

Tussiemussie

4 Aug, 2007

 

I would like to, edulisis - edible? Can it be grown from seed, or did you buy a plant? I have a south facing greenhouse attached to the house, would that be suitable? My self fertile kiwi is growing well this year, last year it was static, so I am hoping it may fruit next year.

snappycroc

Snappycroc

21 Jul, 2007

 

I love the Passionflower.My sister had one already growing in her garden in Rochester.Mum cut it back and its regrown with vigour and flowered.I have a passiflora Caerulia growing in a pot, but it hasnt flowered.It wants a garden with a wall or fence to get its teeth into.
These are the original and most passionflowers I think.My minds image of the spectacular flowers are like your photo.

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Netty

Netty

20 Jul, 2007

 

This passionflower must love being on our south-east facing wall as its almost covered a whole wall in just under a year!

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