I ordered Passiflora Lambiekins from Logee's over a year ago. What I was sent is now a very large plant. It started blooming yesterday for the first time, I to my dismay is clearly NOT P. Lamkiekins. Can anyone here make a positive ID as to what it is. I was attracted to P. Lambiekins as it strikes me as a stately and formal looking passion flower. Logee's picture can be seen here:
http://www.logees.com/images/R1794-2-Large.jpg
Is it just me or is Logee's not what it used to be?
Allan
The pix you posted looks very much like the species edulis. I've one and today it's so happened I had my first flower open this morning.
Lily,
Thank you. I appreciate all suggestions. I've just checked out the full range of P. edulis and I don't think that's quite it. They seem to have much longer and redder (i.e. purple) filaments and the sex organs on edulis are much paler.
However, so far I wonder if I have either a cultivar of Passiflora caerulea or a hybrid from it. They look close in general, but most have a much better defined white ring in the filaments. I've complained to Logees but haven't heard back yet. [BTW, this is not the first time I've been sent the wrong plant from them.]
Here's another picture of the mystery Passiflora that shows it's detail fairly well.
Allan
Ummm, that's quite attractive! Whatever it may be. :)
Here is mine;
Allan,
Do all of the flowers look like that, or was that the first one? It does look like Lambiekins, but just without a white band on the filaments. It may just be an odd flower.
Mark
Mark,
About a half a dozen flowers have opened they all look identical to the one pictured here.
Allan
UPDATE:
I started this thread as my first several blooms of Passiflora Lambiekins obtained from Logee's looked quite different from the picture in their catalog. [Please see the first picture in this thread.] As the summer progressed the flowers started showing the prominent white band in the blue filaments, such that their is now a much better resemblance as seen here. I'm now willing to accept that this is the plant Logee's claimed, though still somewhat different.
I believe it is still noteworthy to point out that I submitted several questions to Logee's customer service and was never contacted by them. This still leaves me with the impression that they are not the company that they used to be.
Allan
