My nephrodes vine bloomed about 25 flowers today. At dawn it fills the air with the scent of cotton candy--so I've been told. At 11am you can still smell the scent faintly. This vine roots easily.
Passiflora Nephrodes
Flicker,
It is beautiful!!! Any chance
you will have rooted cutting for trade??
Honeybee
That is a beauty, Flicker. Are they big flowers?
Wow!!!
I planted this vine in spring as a well rooted cutting. So this is a first year vine. The caterpillars aren't a big problem. I have other vines that they have stripped instead.
The flowers are about 2" + and seem to bloom in groups. This is the second time it's bloomed this year.
Bumble bees just love it.
The flowers opened at dawn. These flowers are reflexed and about to fade....5:30ish pm.
I haven't seen any fruit yet.
oh that's beautiful, and smells like cotton candy??? that's a "must have" passi!
Well I guess thats another one to go on my list of wanted passies.......so pretty Flicker.
My Lavender Lady was loaded yesterday, must have been 25-30 blooms on it too......I don't notice that it has any scent and so far has not one fruit....I started polinating it by hand the same day..I'll see if that helps....have you had to do this?
Hi Willow,
Most hybrid passi's don't produce good fruit at all unless cross pollinated from another vine---and then it is iffy. My lavender Lady set fruit once. I didn't ever see the ripe fruit. It must have dropped. I'm told Incense, a hybrid, maked delicious fruit if pollinated with caerulea pollin. Incense would be the mother.
Oh thanks Flicker, I keep forgetting to polinate with another varitey...thanks for the reminder...guess I have to wait until the others are flowering next year for that.......:o)
Some one asked about the size of the flowers.
Nice! I continue to be intrigued by these vines! Can anyone recommend a website where I could learn about all of the different passifloras?
Here is the best I know of:
http://davesgarden.com/threads.php?user=Tim
This has heiped me with my questions,
for lots of photos go here:
http://www.kwekerijgommer.com/index_english.html
Hope this helps you..... :o)