Passiflora incarnata?

Your second picture looks like P caerulea. Top pic looks like P incarnata.

Do you remember what colour the fruit were on your vine?

Incarnata is the very common native passion vine that grows wild here

in Central Florida. I'm sure you can get seeds off ebay since each vine

usually puts out several round seed pods about the size of a small

tennis ball.

ERIC242 is right!!!! i finally found that picture late last night...THEN found 1 nursery that sells tiny little plants of it for $15!!! plus $8 shipping. I could buy a 2.5 gallon pot, with miles of vine for $15 at Lowes!! Is this thing now endangered or what? Is anyone growing this? And willing to share cuttings or root some ,Ill pay for rooted cuttings IF it can be rooted by cuts? Anyone have it in their yard now...maybe show a pic?

I thought it had somekind of religious thing to it. And a small note about it said the same thing, about the stamens turning with the sun, and being like the sign of the cross or something.

So...anyone have this or know where I can buy a BIG one, or has rooted cuttings I can buy of it? It is also called 'Common Blue', and 'Blue Bouquet', but the Bouquet name pulls up a very white flower with bright blue tendrils in the middle. Now i need to find a nursery to sell me a huge one, or someone with long cuts rooted to buy....anyone?? This 4in pot stuff will take years to grow and bloom.

It's not endangered, but development has cut down on its prolific nature. It grows wild up here in Gainesville. I had a baby, but I planted it at my last house and the stupid landlord mowed it down, even though I showed him where it was. I know where I got it, though, so I can get more.

Well unless it is like Lowes...i cant drive to central Fla. to buy a BIG one. Is that where you got it? Or a greenhouse that mails out small plants? I might have to start with a tiny plant and pray I live long enough to see it grow,cover my fence, and bloom.

Pooh, if you're feeling a little devious, passion vines grow easily from cuttings. I've been known to buy a plant, get cuttings, then resell the plant for just what I paid for it. I'm not this dishonest, but my friend has been known to take a plant out to her car, take cuttings, and then take it right back inside and say she changed her mind. Of course, if you're feeling a little larcenous, you can always snip a few cuttings in the garden center, I'm always looking for broken plant pieces under the tables when I go to one, because they treat the plants so roughly, so there are usually broken limbs.

O.K., I'm going to stop promoting plant theft now. Sorry if I offended anyone.

If Eric242 is correct, and it sounds nds as if he knows his stuff, then neither of the plants he names would be ‘growing wild since they’re both hybrids and one’s a named cultivar. And Pooh, by all means take cuttings but please don’t steal them.

Passifloras grow fast. A four inch pot could be several feet high after one season.

As for the religious connotations, the name refers to the Passion, not an emotional crush.

As for the religious connotations, the name refers to the Passion, not an emotional crush.

Yes if you google "story of the passionflower" you will find several different variants of the religious symbolism and can take your pic, although none of them are quite the same as what we told as kids.

A 2.5 gallon pot is what i am after. At Lowes WHEN THEY USE TO SELL THEM, they were only $12-17...I know it doesn't grow 'wild'....but I also need a BIG one. BUT would not say no to cuttings. But my luck with passion vine cuttings is 0%, no luck at all. So now I know the name, now i have to find cuttings or a grower of BIG plants.

I discovered a neighbor's vine creeping over to my side of the fence, and the kind folks in the butterfly forum ID'd it as P. incarnata 'Incense'. We're expecting a freeze tonight, so a few days ago I went ahead and took a few cuttings (lengths). They've been sitting in water and, so far, haven't wilted. I'll take that to be a good sign.

PoohBearLvr: When you say you have 0 luck with cuttings, would you please clarify/expand? I don't want to goof this up, in case the neighbor's vines die from the freezes. (I don't know that they've covered their plants, so maybe they're just taking their chances.) I might leave 1/2 rooted in water and put 1/2 in potting soil (cut ends dipped in rooting hormone).

I have tried to root passion vine cuttings....for 20 years. In soil, water, vermiculite, perlite, under light, outside in natural light, in plastic bags, like a mini green house, and without the extra humidity the plastic bag made. I live in south Fla. and I CANT get a piece of any kind of passion vine to root.

I am an avid gardener, and I cant root them. I have tried to root 'Alata' and its cousin...'Ruby Glow', no luck at all. I have spent hundreds on TINY plants, that others have rooted, on EBay, and they die on me in weeks. I finally got one to grow, that I bought for over $35 in a 4in pot, 2 years ago, over 50 feet long, covering my fence, lots of vine, never a bloom in all those years though.

1 night of 39degrees outside, and it burned all the leaves, this spring/summer it has been slowly dying ,I only have tiny tips of a few stems left now. i cant even TRY to root the tips...why bother? There is a pot of roots left. i am going to cut it off and pull up the pot, (the pot it came in 2 years ago),and see if it sprouts anything out from the stem left over, or from the roots. So..i have tried every way i know to root a succulent cutting, no luck.

PoohBear, if you're ever near Butterfly World, they sell large plants of many passifloras, or at least they used to.

I know where it is...but...i never heard of them selling large passion vines, or any plants. But..ill look if I ever get up there. Thank you

I'm so sorry to hear this, PoohBearLvr. You've certainly been at it a long time, and you're far more experienced than I am. Maybe someone will chime in with a suggestion that might help. It's going to be a long few months for me, trying to keep all my cuttings alive, so we'll see. I've got a couple of vines double-covered since yesterday, and am afraid to take a peek tomorrow morning. The wind's been non-stop blowing out of the north all day (15-17 mph), and I don't think we made it much past 40 degrees today. Fingers crossed.

They have, or had (I haven't been there in a couple of years) a good-sized nursery of butterfly plants, both nectar and host plants.

That's a great idea, writersblock. I was actually going to suggest contacting a butterfly center, too. Our Houston Cockrell Butterfly Center -- affiliated with the Houston Museum of Natural Science -- has their plant sale twice a year, and they sell every butterfly plant imagineable. That's where I picked up my passiflora foetida. That had loads of plants. Good luck.

Not the "common" one I was thinking of. The one I have seen everywhere is clear sky. What you can't root them? put the rode in the ground and in a week or two should see new growth.

??? put the 'rode' in the ground? Root or stem??? I cant put either in the ground. South Fla. 'ground' is pure sand, that is like the dessert or like clay, if it is dry or wet. There is little in between. The roots are in the ground, cant propagate that way.. and the stems are thick ropes, and they dont root. I dont know how to root what I have. I want the one i have been looking for.

This one wont root for me, never has in over 30 years of trying. Got an idea of how to root' Ruby Glow or alata? tell me. PLEASE!!! The one i have is almost dead, only a few tips left now, from over 50 feet or 75 vines or more.

Try it in a pot, forget using native soil to start. You have more control.

Theres one thats rooted on ebay frm Georgia Vines for around $16.

I dont deal with them! I have bought 4 'Alata' and 'Ruby Glows' from them, tiny tiny rooted cuttings, maybe 3in tall, for like $15 a piece plus shipping, over the years, all of them died within days!! They are VERY unreliable!! That's as close as I have gotten to getting THOSE, I use to have a massive 'Ruby Glow' for years, and it died after a BAD cold snap 15 years ago,....since then I tried to get it from THEM, no luck. They all died. I use to be able to get it at Lowes as well...$9 in a 3 gallon pot. But that one is long gone.

I did buy a passion vine from Lowes last Saturday. In a 3 gallon pot for $13. On a trellis, It is ALMOST like the one I am looking for, but the flower is VERY VERY fragrant, and it is smaller, & has more blue in it. It isn't the 'Incarnata' passion flower, but it is close to that one.

It has no name on it. So I can plant it this weekend, and get it growing, till i HOPE Lowes or Home Depot has the one I am looking for again, in the spring, and they can grow together.

normally passionflower cuttings are easy, we do 1000s every year, and some its 3 weeks and they need repotting. i do use the white powder rooting compound, and a method we developed at Kew Gardens, when i worked there. A few species are not so easy, and need to be done in May or the first week of June, tacsonias are also not as easy, but often will root when its not too hot. The second picture is P. x belotii, also known as Empress Eugenie or similar.

PoohBearLvr, how is your Dec. 8-purchased passion vine doing?

Passiflora are super easy to root. I use the soft floral foam method then pot up to clear cups once enough roots are formed.

In your picture... were these cuttings all tip ends?

I don't recall if those were all tips but it doesn't really matter. You can do it on any portion of the vine but I like thicker pieces vs thin because it has to fit tightly into the floral foam without breaking. I can do a tutorial if anyone wants me to.

Hii all “)
I know this post is old. Seems like a few here have some good knowledge of passion vines. I bought one a few weeks ago and I’m wondering if it produces fruit or is mainly for the butterflies ? Any advice /tips welcomed . From the info in the post here is looks like the incarnata? I’m in south Florida

Sure appears to be. You'll know if it fruits eventually. Sometimes the fruits can be very sour, but AFAIK, all passiflora is edible.

Thanks for your reply Carol!
I’ve had some say the plants need another to propagate and others say they are self pollinators. Are you familiar with this?

Carol, Some Passiflora Fruit is Deadly Poisonous, eg Adenopoda, and others in the byronioides section probably are too, i would put morifolia as a close reletive in the Dont Know fruit. So Not all Passiflora is edible, only a small selection are. You can trick a passiflora to fruit, if you only have the one, and it doesnt self fruit. Take pollen from another passiflora and put it on one of the female pads, and put its own pollen on the other 2 pads, and it should produce fruit, if it was in the same section, you cant do it with Decaloba and Passiflora, as its not compatable.

You Should not eat any fruit in the Poisonous/incipid and Dont Know lists, as with fungi, only from the edible list, and not all those are nice.

Speaking of Passiflora, I got seeds from a wild P. lutea last fall, and they came up and are growing like mad. I also planted some of the P. caerulea seeds that I bought at Lowe's, and they've come up and are starting to grow too. I just wanted them for the butterflies. Now I have to find a place to plant them where they won't get killed off once I move.

OK maybe not ALL. I did not realize there were so many types. I only know the ones most folks grow around here.

The Lovely New Book

Passionflowers: A Pictorial Guide

by Ronald Boender, Dr. John MacDougal (Editor), Dr. R. J. R. Vanderplank (Contributor)

Has a great number of the Passionflowers in it.