I have some purple hyacinth beans planted and doing well. I had some mystery seeds that looked IDENTICAL to these but the name on package was Jew Vine or Jerusalem vine. I can't find any info on a Jew vine or the like. Has anyone else planted seeds like these(black with a very distinct white stripe on bottom)? I know time will tell but I'm trying to plan out some beds so I need to know this plants traits or it will be placed somewhere else and I'd hate to put something potentially beautiful out back.
I need help trying to figure out what 1 of my Passifloa's is. I'll get a picture ASAP but with no buds/blooms, that's pointless right now. Here is the deal.
Last fall in a mad rush to bring everyone inside before a freeze, I missed a label or 2. Well I think it was my Amethystina that had died down to no foliage so I think I grabbed a handfull of insignificant roots and potted them. Well a few months later, I had the skinniest vine grow up from the dirt which just blew my mind. I let it grow and 3 more popped up shortly after. After they got about 1 ft. tall, I pinched the tips as there were way too thin/flimsy. Well now there are many very slim vines growing well and more keep breaking ground all the time. It's a fairly big plant now with several stems growing from the soil rather than 1 main stalk like most all others do. I'm talking around 15+ vines all growing from a spot maybe 2 inches in diameter and more and more vines popping up every week. It is now a pretty bushy plant and the vines have multiple branches off of them now.
The odd thing is the nodes are VERY far apart as if they were growing in the dark. but they're growing right next to others under the 1000 watt mh growlamp and they all have very tite node spacing so I know the spacing isn't due to lack of lite. I'm so stumped and I have NEVER seen a Passy grow from the soil like this before. All my others will grow 1 main stem and take off from there. This one has many many stems growing out of the dirt and more keep popping through the ground all the time. I've never seen a passy grow from the ground that is so thin that it looks like its never gonna stand up and live but they do. I sure hope its a Passiflora Amethystine as the only 1 cutting I grew last year never bloomed.
Does anyone have a Passiflora that naturally grows thin with far apart node spacing? This one has 3 lobbed leaves too btw. Does anyone recall if these traits come with Amethystina? I'll probably have to wait for it to bloom but man this is the biggest mystery plant I've had in many years.
Sorry for such an unorganized post but I'm very tired and confused. Thanks all and I'll get pics up ASAP.
JD
Help with ID on a couple plants/seedlings
JD, the passiflora book says that p. amethystina has very thin stems and makes lots of suckers and has three lobed leaves if that helps any.
OOps, sorry, there was info for two different varieties on the same page and I made a mistake. p. "Amethyst" is the one that makes suckers, not p. amethystina, and P. "Amethyst" is often sold as amethystina.
This message was edited Apr 12, 2005 11:06 PM
Alright! I probably have the name wrong now that I think of it. I'll look it up but it sure sounds like what you describe except there is no stem for suckers to emerge from!LOL
Thanks again, Jeff
How about P. Incense? I don't think I had that 1 bloom either. I have the Amethyst and amethystina(which I believe are both the same plant) named different on 2 different lists and it was only 1 plant. So much for that list.
Clareca sent me this 1 I think. If you see this Clare, could you let me know which 1 you think you may have sent me?
Thanks so much for your help!
JD
JD, both Incense and Amethyst send up plants from the roots. Incense tends to send up plants farther away from the main stem than does Amethyst. Two others that sucker for me are Lady Margaret and Star of Clevdon. Star of Clevdon has thin, wirey stems. Incense has thick stems and big leaves and Lady Margaret's are different(sort of fuzzy looking), and lighter green.
Hope this helps.
Man I thought I had it figured out until you said incense has thick stems. These spindly looking stems sound like Star of Clevdon but I never got that 1 from you. I pray it;s Incense as that is the only passie I can't acct. for and I thought I lost it. This is the craziest thing I've ever seen.
I think I had 3 passie's in 1 huge pot and I divided them up since 1 of them looked dead.
I had some very odd base stem trot or disease late last fall and it took over this mystery plant. So I took a chance and just grabbed a fist full of these roots where that passie used to be and I think that is what I stuck in the six inch pot under the grow lamp. Well now this thing that had 1 stem that was the size of a thin thread now has tons of them and many are now branching but the growth looks like it has been in low light conditions as the node spacing is so far apart on the top growth. I'll take a picture and I'll bet you(Clare) WILL BE ABE TO id IT. I'm just so happy it's alive!
Shoot, now that I think about it, there is a tiny possibility that it could of been roots of a P. Vitafolia...man I better quit thinking so hard...its doing too much damage right now!LOL
Thanks all, JD
Hey guys I mde a big mistake in describing the leaves of this plant. Aftr looking at it much closer just now, I noticed a few 5 bladed leaves! DOH! The five bladed 1's are so very thin, I didn't notice them at all until just now.
Maybe that will help in figuring this 1 out. Does incense have 3 or 5 bladed leaves? This has both but a few are 5's. HELP!?
Thanks again, Jeff
Incense has 5 lobes.