My passiflora morifolia is making fruit.
passiflora morifolia fruit
Isn't morifolia a great passiflora??!! I loved mine! It was so happy and just constantly bloomed its head off. My other passies were stingy, but not this one!
We'll all know when you are collecting the seeds, from your purple fingers! lol...
If you don't know what I mean now, you will! lol...my fingers were stained for days, lol...
-Seedpicker_TX
Thanks for the warning!!! This is the first time I have grown this one.
That pod will turn deep purple when it is ripe. It can really stain your fingers and clothes...
And remember that the fruit is nonedible!
I got my first P. morifolia seed from you, Taylor, remember? You sent them to me for a SASE a couple of years ago. Then, when someone stole your parent plant off your front porch, I sent you some seed from my plant! Are you growing P. morifolia again? I actually ended up taking my vine out. It just was too good of a grower and was taking over the other vines, and the flowers were just too small to be noticed.
Hi Clare_CA!
I did send some out for sase, but never had anything stolen off my porch...mine was in the back garden behind the house...Maybe you are blending me and someone else together in your memory! lol...happens to me ALL the time! lol...
No, I didn't grow it this year. Last year I grew it on a 15 foot tall martin birdhouse pole, and it was just gorgeous, when it was blooming. I had multiple dozens of blooms, blooming at one time! One bloom isn't all that noticeable, but when there are tons of them in mass, it is really something.
This year I wanted to grow something else on that pole, since I have limited tall poles in sunny spots. I chose a twining bluehood, and it didn't do so well. It still hasn't even bloomed.
It makes me wish I HAD planted morifolia, again...I will find a spot for morifolia this Spring, but may not be that same spot, again...
I did ask my husband to sample one of the morifolia fruits, to see if it was any good. (We've tried the flavicarpa fruit, and it it wonderful!) He scrunched his face and spit it out. With his face still scrunched, he said it tasted like sour dirt! lol...I still laugh about that. he is my "Mike-y", like the old Life cereal commercial: "hey, lets get Mike-y to eat it! He'll eat ANYTHING!" lol...
-T
LOL seedpicker thanks for the big smile.
I can see your poor DH trying the bitter fruit and the face he must have made.
I had him try out a raw leaf of our malabar climbing spinach this year too.
It tasted "like hair gel"! LOL!, ...poor guy...
-T
LOL, Taylor. Sorry about that. I am confusing you with someone named "Tiger" in Texas. She is over at the GardenWeb passiflora forum, or at least she used to be. I don't get there much anymore.
LOL! That is pretty funny about your poor husband, the taste-tester!
He has to eat my cooking too! lol...
-T