Here is a pic of a tetraploid Passiflora incarnata. It is a very robust vine. It unfortunately doesn't set seed very well. The fruits are round instead of egg shaped like most of the diploid Passiflora incarnata. The blooms are approx. 4.5 inches (on a fertilized plant).
Beautiful! and welcome to DG from another resident of the Bluegrass. We're glad to have you here.
Nice picture and welcome to Daves. I always love the passiflora pictures. Do you grow many other varieties?
Welcome Kybred. I was raised in Ky (in fact went to college in Owensboro many years ago) and we had passifloras growing wild in our yard when I was a little girl. I suppose we had the diploid passiforas as I remember egg shaped fruit.
Several years ago I was raising several of the passifloras in hopes of breeding them with the P. incarnata. We had a freak tornado in January which ripped the roof off of my house and destroyed my breeding program. I lost interest in starting it up again. I had to many irons in the fire anyway.
Is your passiflora the same as "Incense" http://plantsdatabase.com/go/54070/index.html ? If so, I recently ordered this from Logee's as I was looking for a Dark Purple passiflora that would be hardy here in Tennessee.
No, 'Incense' is an old hybrid between P. incarnata and P. cincinnata. It is darker than my tetraploid P. incarnata.
I have never grown 'Incense' so I can't say anything about its hardiness but it is reported to be as hardy as P. incarnata.
Down to 20f or less I am getting" Allspice" a Monterey Bay Nursery plant. They call it "The New Incense" It doesn't get virus's but the filiments are not as long. They have it at my local nursery. picture!
I haven't seen this one before! I wonder who it's parents were? Awesome color!! I would be glad to send you pollen this summer if you would like to try and hybridize with it! Just let me know.
It is a combination of P. incarnata and an Argentinian species. Unlike the normal Incense it keeps it's leaves and is evergreen to 25f. The Monterey Bay people do all kinds of twiking with their plants. They also made this one virus-free. So they took the normal Incense and added something to make a seedling that's called Allspice.
