The flowers are not as colorful as others (hybrids). But the fruits, yum. Everyone (well, almost everyone), loves them. :-)
The humble Maypop.
They're late to return in spring, but once the heat arrives, watch out!!! In our climate, they are now setting fruits.
I do not have this one and will have to add it to my need list. I think the flower is pretty but then again I do not think I have ever met a flower I did not like. :o)
Very cool Lily!
Erick
Thanks, Erick. Marie; many gardeners in subtropical climes may snear at the thought of this humble vines. For it's very invasive there. The roots will tunnel many miles underground and pop up everywhere unexpected. They don't even need trelis to climb on, they just spread, and sprawl in every directions as they please. A very high-spririted vine, indeed.
Not much has a chance of being invasive here in the desert. We do have a few plants but not many. Usually it is a chore trying to keep something other than a cactus alive!!
Kim,
I love these. As you said the fruit is Yummy. My DGM used to get us grandkids to go out a collect as many as we could and she made the best jellies from them. As you know if you get the fruit before it is ripe it is horrible but when it is ripe it is the sweetest.
Gary
Kim - Beautiful pics!!!
Gary, the best aspect about this vine, to me is that so many has fond memories growing up with this vines. My friends were floored when they found the fruits hanging on my trelis. :-)
Chantell; how are your baby vines doing? I hope they fare well.
Kim
Baby vines doing great!!! Thank you again so much!! Hmmm...maybe I'll get fruit in the years to come...that would be awesome!!
ok this is off topic but anyways. Chantell how is the beautiful granddaughter?
Oh mercy...opening up a can of worms asking about my Chloe eh? LOL She's doing great!! Thank you so much for asking. This pics grainy but most the pics are on home computer.
She is so beautiful!!!! Her mommy must be so proud!!
Lovely little baby Chloe! Ah, she can help pick Maypop in the near future.
Kim
I finally got Maypop back and it's about 12 feet tall now, flowering like crazy. No fruits yet. It is very hardy in Pennsylvania & I love it. It is used to hybridize with other Passiflora.
Thank you Kim and Marie - yes, my DD is very proud of her...and I of her...very good mommy she is!!
Buttoneer - pics please? Show me what I can look forward to!! :)
I will have to take some tomorrow. Too dark out now. Let me see if I have pix of the flowers. BRB.
Here is one of the open flower.
How cool is that? Maypop hardy all the way up north? Chantell, if yours doesn't bloom this season, it surely will next year.
Drooling on my keyboard now...these blooms are simply amazing....oh I can't wait!!!
Chantell; as you can see, what we've is Passi. incarnata. Buttoneer's must be a slightly different hybrid. Buttoneer; have yours fruited for you any yet?
No, mine is not a different hybrid. It's colder up here and the plants flower bigger. I don;'t know why. When I was in Fla a couple years ago, the flowersI saw were smaller like yours. Ours die down to the ground in autumn and come up in late May or in early June, hence the name Maypop.
I guess the plant pushes itself so much to get up & blooming that the flowers are bigger. I have noticed this before but really not sure why. Mine came up in June and a month later are 12 feet high & blooming like a nut. In a month. Can you believe it? Sure glad it's hardy here. It does send out an underground runner & shoots come up from it all over wherever the runner runs underground. They can come up several inches to a foot or more from the parent plant. And when you go to dig it up, you have to dig really deep to get the runner. Very unusual plant. I have seen bumble bees get drunk from the pollen and sleep on the flower.
Honestly...I'm be happy with any size bloom!! I'm iso the one of the red ones that are hardy now. Planting all kinds of red and orange blooming plants in my back yard (pink/purple/white/blues in front yar) to draw the hummers in. I was SO excited when I saw 2, finally, last night!!!
Buttoneers; Erick posted a pic. of "inscene" Passi. Looks like yours. Do keep us posted whether or not these will fruit?
Thanks.
It looks like incense but I swear it's incarnata. Let me try to get a better pix of the flower & you can compare.
More fruits, gotta find ways to protect these fruits. Birds have stolen my last fruits that I posted.
Lily,
I've never really heard of birds taking the fruits--pecking holes in them maybe. I think they may have just fallen from vine because they were ripe. I'd look around on the ground--they may still be there.
Mark
In my case, Mark, perhaps the birds and the squirrels work in cohort. LOL, because there is no trace of the fruits on the ground. I've looked. Not to mention we've chipmonds, well, chipmonds don't eat fruit per se, they prefer nuts? We do have big hickory trees around the area.
Kim
Then why did the chipmonks take my roma tomatoes, from off the vine?One at a time, I saw the little---climb up and run down with one in his mouth, at the not quite ripe stage.Mike
Arghhh! ok, ok, I'll share my Maypop with them chipmonds, under one condition. They will not eat my lily bulbs. You think I could strike up a deal with them? lol
Hi all, just came across this forum, I was glad to see that someone else admires the Maypop as much as I do. I have had it for about 3 years and it comes up with more vigor every year.I made cuttings and transplanted some along my fence by out woods.This year it isnt is vigorous(mostly because i dug some up for transplanting) but last year it bloomed and bloomed and set fruit and eveything.Ive had about 5 flowers this year,but there are more buds on the way. Glad to have a hardy passionflower!
thomas
