This picture is of my "quad" passion vine flower. I've had the vine for 3 years now and it has taken over a forty foot expanse of back fence! The flowers are over 5" in diameter and smell like a cross of carnations and Welch's grape juice.
Randy
That is gorgeous! Another one to add to the list of Passis that I want/need and desire! Thanks for sharing...forty feet in three years? Wow!
Randy, you are a Passifloragod as well as a Plumeriagod. Beautiful flower! What are your coldest temps at night in the wintertime? I have P. quadrangularis "Warmlands," and it cannot take temps below 40. I've kept it in a portable greenhouse this winter, but now it is getting quite large, and I don't know if I'm going to be able to put it back in the greenhouse after it grows this summer.
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Thanks Melvatoo! Hi, Clare! I'm over at the Maui Plumeria Forum. I joined last year and thought your name was familiar! I'm "plumeriapalace" on MPF. Actually, your the passion flower goddess!!! I was looking at all of your passion vines and their gorgeous!
My "quad" will take temps to 45 degrees, but anything after that it looses all of it's leaves and goes dormant. My coldest temps are in the mid to low 40's, sometimes mid 30's. I lucked out and planted mine the first year of purchase. I planted it the first of May when night temps stayed in the mid to low 60's. It's growing in full sun.
Randy
Beautiful. I live in the wrong zone.I do have 1 in my GH. It lost all its leaves and not sure it will make a comeback. Looks pretty sad.
It looks more like x-decaisneana, especially if it's that hardy. It also looks like it has only four " nectar glands" on the stems where quadrangularis has 6.
LOL, Thanks, Randy. I'll look for you over at Maui. I think Susie is right that you must have P. x decaisneana, a P. quadrangularis hybrid. I think the real P. quadrangularis drops dead at 45. I forgot about the nectar glands factor. No matter, though, because yours is beautiful and more hardy than P. quadrangularis. I'm afraid to plant mine here in the ground because I don't think it will be hardy in my Zone 10. I lost one last winter as soon as the temp dropped below 50. Thanks for sharing a picture:-) You should post your picture here: http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/57451/index.html
Clare, the're almost identical and so hard to tell apart except for the nectar glands and I think the fruit may be a little different. I prefer the hardier one and now I have hope for mine that was in the ground to come back. The potted one that I brought into the garage is fine, but the one that was outside died back to the ground.
My friend that has the tropical fruit farm lost two long rows of quads to the freeze at Christmas, she said she's pretty sure they're dead. They were not happy campers to start with because it does get below 45 here occaisonally.
Thanks, Susie. I think I'm going to have to leave my P. quadrangularis "Warmlands" in a container permanently. It is such a huge vine that I dread growing it to massive proportions and then trying to untangle it to move it to the greenhouse, but I don't think it will survive the winter here in the ground as it does drop below 45 here too. The funny thing is, Logee's says that they discovered this vine growing in San Diego and asked the owner for cuttings. San Diego is surely colder than where I am. Do you think that the bigger the vine is, the more hardy it is?
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That would make sense, I know bigger trees here survived the frost much better than smaller versions of the same variety.
You should have seen me out in the snow trying to untangle my x-dec passiflora from the patio roof! I finally chopped it loose and dragged it into the garage with the hand truck.
Yeah! After researching I believe Susie is right! I had no idea there were that many crosses of p. quadrangularis.
When I bought it it just said "passiflora quadrangularis". Oh well, I'm just glad it's done so well here!:)
Thanks,
Randy
Susie, who would have ever even thought that you would get snow in your zone? It was an amazing sight to see. I can just picture you out there with your vine and other tropicals. I'm sure that I will do the same when next winter comes: chop it loose!
Randy, nurseries often label it wrong because it looks just like P. quad and because it is a hybrid of P. quad. I'm not sure there is a real pure P. quad available here in the United States. It seems to be quite elusive. I'm even suspicious of my P. quad "Warmlands."
Clare, it was the first time in history that we had a white Christmas and had been 109 years since it snowed at all. Things are still recovering.
Randy:
Is that you????? Rita from Annies.
Beautiful flower. I can almost smell it from here!
