Can anyone identify this climber?
By Lotuswoman
United States 
I assume it must be a type of clematis, but I can't find anyone who knows the name of it....
I live in Connecticut, and bought this at a garden store, though it was unlabeled. It has two sensitive tendrils that guide it to climb and then two more tendrils appear for the next length of vine. The blossoms last only one day each.
10 Sep, 2009
Answers
Its a Passion Flower or Passiflora! Mine won't flower, you are lucky!
They produce fruit too! Obviously conditions in Connecticut are better than Kent, UK!
Enjoy!
10 Sep, 2009
Definitely a passiflora incarnata.....I have several and the one just inside my greenhouse door has taken over.....you can't close the door any more - need a machete to get in and it is covered in flowers!! I hack it down every year and back it comes - more vigorous than ever....and our winters can be chilly - we had minus10c for days on end last time round up here in the east of Scotland. Perhaps mine does so well as it may benefit from a bit of tomato feed - in the passing!!!
10 Sep, 2009
wow this is beautiful
I recently bought one of these and its been eaten!! :o(
and then I found something near my house pulled it up thinking it was a weed and it was this!!
am beginning to think I should give up on these
x x x
10 Sep, 2009
My neighbours has stunning flowers and fruits - they can grow quickly, be invasive and prone to being untidy.
10 Sep, 2009
Sorry to dissent folks - this is Passiflora caerulea, the common Passion Flower, not incarnata - fortunately, because 'incarnata' is a bit tender and a very, very untidy grower.
10 Sep, 2009
that sounds a bit easier to look after then
x x x
10 Sep, 2009
MEA CULPA Bamboo...of course it is the common caerulea one - it wouldn't last five mins up here otherwise...well not in a chilly greenhouse anyway!! Apologies all round - my brain must have been "out of office" - nothing unusual in that of course!!
10 Sep, 2009
Not called Alzheimer for nothing then;-))) I have the same trouble - spent 3 days last week trying to recall the name Armeria...
10 Sep, 2009
Ah yes - that would be the country where Noah's Ark came to rest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL
10 Sep, 2009
I thought my neighbour had the common one (now not so sure) and didnt know about 'Incantata' Sorry. I just read it as passion flower passiflora. My neighbours plant is very untidy so might hers be a Incontata? because if it is I might rethink the common one as it so pretty and sounds as if it might be less untidy?
10 Sep, 2009
They're all a bit untidy, but incarnata is particularly so - only tolerates down to 7 degrees C anyway, so not really an option over here unless its under glass.
10 Sep, 2009
Actually, the earliest flood account dates back to the Sumerian Kingdom, several thousand years before the Bible was written. This would of course, place the origin in Iraq, if it wasn't for the fact that the Sumerians came from somewhere, which linguistically would place them into the Kurgon Kingdom, which some of you might more readily identify with Hungary.
Historically, due to rising sea levels since the last Ice Age, the ficticious site of the Ark's landing, would have to be, completely opposed to modernistic thinking, UNDER THE SEA!!!!!
Sorry to adjust your views - just thought some might be interested (smile).
10 Sep, 2009
that was interesting am always open to different views and historical findings
theres definatly got to be more to it.....
x x x
10 Sep, 2009
OH...Burgundy...that is all very fascinating ...BUT I was teasing Bamboo for the ArmeRia...and deliberately said ArmeNia as he was joshing me about my memory!! Still - good info ...thanks!!!!
10 Sep, 2009
As long as you're all enjoying yourselves;-)))
Technically, we're all African....
10 Sep, 2009
Yes I know Lazheimer - no slight on you - apologies if you thought so.
Mookins - there's always more to everything. Truth is always removed from reality for the sake of our perception of political expediancy.
Bamboo - African yes, but Homo sapien sapen?
Study of world transmigration events and skeletal structures would seem to suggest that Humans are not the only species on this planet. Indeed, interbreeding with Neaderthals is strongly proposed, and it is almost certain that Homo erectus interbred with Homo sapien sapiens to produce the far Asian species.
A simple test renders this so:
Squat.
You will find that the front of your feet are on the ground, but your heels are not. You teeter and balance until you rock forward or back.
Far Asian skeletal structures can squat with their heels on the ground because they have the rotation in their hips to allow a stable squat, a feature common to Homo erectus, but not Homo sapien sapiens.
Yes, we are all of the Homo genus, but there could be 3 such Homo species on this planet today, yet for most, only one of them is Human!!!!!
Want to believe in aliens?
Now's your chance.
Oh yes, and the next time you all want to taste an authentic Indian take-a-way or an oriental dish, try to persuade the cooks NOT to put chilli in it, after all, chilli is NOT a traditional food of Asia, as it is indiginous to Mexico, and only brought to the far east through the early trade routes, but then, us gardeners, ought to know that.
See what I mean about the truth?
So much of what most believe, is just not the truth at all. It is how be percieve the truth to be.
Anyway, I'm off to make a jolly good brew up in my copper kettle. Beats these plastic jobbies every time.
cheers!
11 Sep, 2009
This looks like Passion Flower, Passiflora Incarnata. The whole of the plant is supposed to remind you of Chist's passion on the cross. We had these growing wild when we lived in Alabama, USA. The fruit is edible!
10 Sep, 2009