I grew this from a little one and it grew so quick but hasn't fruited yet. The flowers are huge and very perfumed. Blue passion maybe?
What's this passionfruit flower?
It looks like P. Alata. May I ask where you got it? I've been searching for one.
Mark
It's gorgeous! I'd like one, too - please tell us where you got it!
Ebay maybe? Would have been from a Australian seller though.
Someone from Australia was able to ship plants into the USA successfully? I didn't know that was possible.
Kay,
Breeindy is in Australia..........
I got that in your post - I wanted to know how someone from Australia could ship plants to the USA.
there's seeds on ebay..............I don't seem to have great luck w/ passi seeds.........cuttings yes.....seeds no..........)-:
Me either - except Edulus - does sprout and grow like crazy for me.
I missed the Australia location too. Anyhow, I have never been able to get the Alata seeds to germinate.
Mark
Ends up costing to much to ship plants overseas. I'm in Australia and i bought it from a Aussie seller. This passionfruit hasn't flowered yet but when it does i'll have to see how easy/hard it is to germinate the seeds.
I bought the Edulis for this reason... I was told that most passion flowers are hard to get to fruit because most passion flowers have to "cross Pollinate" but the Edulis could self pollinate. Is this true or a myth?
My Lady Margaret is setting fruit, for some reason I thought they weren't supposed too or they were sterile, is this true ?
Mine had fruit on it when I got it from Paul .. is was a cross.
X
I got this one from a nursery. Wasn't supposed to be a cross..I'll need to get a pic of just the flower, the only one I have has a Gulf Frit on it. I can take a picture of the fruit...it's bigger than a golf ball now.
First I'd like to say thanks Mark for the Passies. Then I'd like to tell some of you there is a plant very much like the Red one at the top of this page at Kartuz Greenhouses 2009 Catalog. I was searching to see what some of my passies were going to look like and low and behold I ran across a huge red one like the one from Australia. If your interested you might google the Kartuz Greenhouses 2009 Catalog and look at it yourself.
P.S. I think it was around $14 or $15 for a small plant.
Happy Gardening,
Marian
I buy seeds from Australia and us have several different growing from seed, seed has to be fresh and if the don't bubble wrap seeds they crush before you get them
Dan,
The two most common varieties of P. edulis are P. edulis edulis (which self pollinates and produces a purple fruit), and P. edulis flavicarpa (which has to be cross pollinated, and produces a yellow fruit). TThe flowers look different on these two--see the Plant Files. There are quite a few other varieties of P. edulis which may or may not be self-fertile.
MJ,
Lady Margaret will readily set fruit when pollinated with incarnata and/or caerulea, and probably several others. My LM is loaded with fruit right now--no doubt the bumblebees pollinated it with incarnata pollen.
Mark
Mark, I've mangled a number of Lady Margaret trying to find pollen to pollinate it. You had suggested in another thread to part the petals the day before it opens and collect the pollen. I've done that a number of time and have never seen where it has released the pollen .. You did say it could be pollinated to itself?
X
Mark,
I've got incarnata and caerulea, soooo, the bee's probably did it, or the butterflies ? I sure didn't !
mj
MJ,
Bumblebees are the perfect size and height for pollinating passies. The fluff on the back of their thorax is typically loaded with pollen. They are such good pollinators that I have to cover my passie flowers with netting when I pollinate them to prevent the bumblebees from cross pollinating with something I don't want. I don't think the butterflies are anywhere near as effective.
Mark
Well we had a flood and then the electric fence broke, then the cows ate my passionfriut but now it's growing back, waiting for more of those lovely big red alata flowers....
I have about 8 different ones growing that I have started from seeds , seeds are cheap on ebay
Heres another one I send them up trees I have one thats 40 ft up hard to see the flowers
unfortunately I can't grow most of those outside year round, but I am fortunate that so far they grow very well in the house for me....almost ready to try my hand at what few seeds I do have
danasplants- wow there a very delite looking red flower. There not Alata are they? My Alata has more rounded, thicker, bigger, greener leaves not the delicate, 3 pointed ones like on your passion plants. Love them!
When there young they have the single leaf as they mature they get the 3 lobed leaf the red ones are going to town right now. I have the one grandvilla or gigantica suppose to have fruit that can reach 9 pound it has went almost 40 ft up a tree. Only problem don't get to see flowers. I have sweet passion ,
sea anneome, aussie yellow and a few crosses, incense , and p. edius has a white flower with purple fringe
Dana- see my pic at the top of this thread, thats my alata. I got it as a little plant and it grew huge, then the cows ate it and now after being under a flood for a few days it's growing back.
It's always had big rounded leaves though, Like my nelly kelly, yellow passion fruits. The only passion plant i have with the pointed leaves is my banan passion fruit, which comes up everywhere like a innoying weed, no fruit yet though.
bree go on ebay get some seeds there cheap soak them and go for it if the seeds are not fresh it takes a bit. They are easy to do you get 5-10 seed have a few for trades now word of warning these can be a pest too. Plant in really big pot once you have it were you want it cut part of the bottom of pot so roots can come out. Sink the pot half way and no babies otherwise there everywhere. hope this helps you
Heads up on ebay theres a seller called Degartner he is selling seeds of crosses that he has done check out the blue one its awesome!
Could be Passiflora quadrangularis (Giant Granadilla). Your flower looks very much like it. If the flowers reach 5 inches across and the stems have a square shape to them (thus the scientific name) this could be your passion flower. The fruit reaches 6 inches across and 12 inches long and the entire fruit is edible. I recently acquired a very nice rooted cutting and, if all goes well, hope to have fruit later this summer. If so and there is enough I'll have seeds to share.
Steve I think your right let us know how you make out
Now that I enlarged the original picture to see the stem I'm sure it's Passiflora quadrangularis.
I had 1 last yr the cold killed it , it grew 40 ft in one of my trees never saw a flower think it didn't get enough sun
They really need lots of sun to perform well. Yours should return from the roots. Once you do see some growth transplant it to a sunny area. We had a really harsh winter here in SE Texas. The maypops are totally gone right now but once it stays warm for awhile they'll start showing themselves. I'm waiting for the ones in the wild to pop up so I can collect a few. Speaking of their need for sun, we find the maypops on the edge of tree lines or growing on the ground in fields. Never in a shaded area. The fruit makes a great juice. When the fruit turns yellow we remove the seeds with the sac of juice around them, put in a cheesecloth bag and squeeze the juice out. Dilute with a little water, add a little sugar and it makes a great drink. Especially with a touch of rum added! ;)
LOL I hear ya with the rum every thing goes good with rum. The plants that I planted on the south side of the tree trunk made it just fine p.Edius you can never even tell there was a freeze. I have sea anenome, if you run them up trees on the south side they do great. Sweet passion, Aussie Yellow , Incense, They are neat but I put them in a decent size pot get them going then sink the pot half way other wise babies everywhere!
its a alata x quad i think = decaisneana. Thanks steve for that.
check out ebay volker selling a cross he did awesome blue hes selling seed out of 5 seed i did get 1 plant his name ebay is degartner
actually i thinks its a straight Alata now.
Dana- is that red flowering passion flower you posted a Coccinea, i just got some seeds and am going to try and grow it.