RE: passion flower
- To: <perennials@mallorn.com>
- Subject: RE: passion flower
- From: "* <d*@blueriver.net>
- Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 23:03:31 -0500
- Importance: Normal
If your passionflower has lavender or light purple flowers it might be
Passiflora incarnata, native throughout the Southeastern United States,
according to FAIRS, http://hammock.ifas.ufl.edu/txt/fairs/fw/4947.html, and
Maricela, http://ykc.com/lisd/passion.htm.
P. incarnata does have edible fruit:
http://www.efn.org/~bsharvy/edible6.html#Passionfruit.
Barb in Southern Indiana Zone 5/6 <dorsett@blueriver.net>
Midwest Gardener http://www.suite101.com/topics/page.cfm/430
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> >Not being from around these parts, northern Alabama, I didn't know what
> >was growing in the outskirts of my yard. I finally found a picture of a
> >passion flower and figured it out.
> > These must be like wild perennials? I didn't plant it and it seems to
> >be popping up in various parts of the yard.
> > Seeing it for the first time, I must say it is really exotic looking.
> >The flower looks like a little martian dancing on top of the flower.
> > Are the fruits edible? I read they make fruit. I am not sure what type
> >it is, but it says some of them are not edible.
> > Windy
>
>
> Its wild in some parts of the world, but not yours. It must have been
> planted by a previous inhabitant or carried by a critter. The fruits are
> indeed edible -- at least for some types of passion flowers. There is an
> email discussion listserv for passifloras (the genus name for passion
> flower is passiflora). Write to LISTSERV@NIC.SURFNET.NL and, in
> the text
> of your message (not
> the subject line), write: SUBSCRIBE PASSIFLORA-L
>
> It is a wonderful plant and there is lots of information availble.
>
> Nan
>
> Nan Sterman, Master Composter in residency
> San Diego County, California
> Sunset zone 24, USDA zone 10b or 11
>
>
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