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10/04/2014 10:45:52 AM · #1 |
Keen botanists ahoy!
I found this remarkable flower today and was wondering if anyone could identify it. It's a lovely looking thing. The blue is probably a bit more purple in real life, pre processing.
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10/04/2014 10:58:03 AM · #2 |
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10/04/2014 11:02:04 AM · #3 |
Originally posted by bvy:
Passion flower? |
Excellent. That looks like the one. Cheers Brian! |
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10/04/2014 11:43:05 AM · #4 |
| Yup. Passion flower. the day He designed it, God was on LSD... |
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10/04/2014 12:58:16 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by tanguera:
Yup. Passion flower. the day He designed it, God was on LSD... |
He certainly must have been. I think he should have kept the LSD up instead of dabbling with things like ketamine and coming up with slugs.
Wish i'd come across it a couple of weeks ago as it would have made a nice entry for Organic Geometry.
Message edited by author 2014-10-04 13:03:30. |
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10/04/2014 01:05:12 PM · #6 |
comes in different colors too. |
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10/04/2014 01:07:16 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by Ja-9:
comes in different colors too. |
Lovely. I must have come across them before but i was a bit surprised to find it growing by the side of the road at the bottom of someones garden. |
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10/04/2014 01:42:50 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by rooum:
Lovely. I must have come across them before but i was a bit surprised to find it growing by the side of the road at the bottom of someones garden. |
Apparently under the right growing conditions, they can go quite crazy. A friend from work had given me a plant, and she said her whole fence was covered with them without effort and in a dominating fashion. When planted on my patio, I only got a couple flowers. My patio was not the right growing condition though. It might have something to do with me being lazy and them requiring water... |
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10/04/2014 03:44:59 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by aliqui:
Originally posted by rooum:
Lovely. I must have come across them before but i was a bit surprised to find it growing by the side of the road at the bottom of someones garden. |
Apparently under the right growing conditions, they can go quite crazy. A friend from work had given me a plant, and she said her whole fence was covered with them without effort and in a dominating fashion. When planted on my patio, I only got a couple flowers. My patio was not the right growing condition though. It might have something to do with me being lazy and them requiring water... |
There's that. From what I've seen here in FL, they can either be cultivated or wild. When let go (wild) they do have a tendency to "take over". I don't know how far north they grow...but they are all around here and in some very rural areas (nature preserves n such) which tells me that they are native to Florida. It's a plant that I really like but I tend to have a black thumb...you know...requiring water thing...pffffftttt!!! |
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10/04/2014 07:20:17 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by Ja-9:
Originally posted by aliqui:
Originally posted by rooum:
Lovely. I must have come across them before but i was a bit surprised to find it growing by the side of the road at the bottom of someones garden. |
Apparently under the right growing conditions, they can go quite crazy. A friend from work had given me a plant, and she said her whole fence was covered with them without effort and in a dominating fashion. When planted on my patio, I only got a couple flowers. My patio was not the right growing condition though. It might have something to do with me being lazy and them requiring water... |
There's that. From what I've seen here in FL, they can either be cultivated or wild. When let go (wild) they do have a tendency to "take over". I don't know how far north they grow...but they are all around here and in some very rural areas (nature preserves n such) which tells me that they are native to Florida. It's a plant that I really like but I tend to have a black thumb...you know...requiring water thing...pffffftttt!!! |
Well, they certainly would get a lot of water here in Wales. Perhaps too much i guess. It was nice to see, what is to me, quite an exotic plant happily out in the open here. |
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10/04/2014 07:59:20 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by Ja-9:
Originally posted by aliqui:
Originally posted by rooum:
Lovely. I must have come across them before but i was a bit surprised to find it growing by the side of the road at the bottom of someones garden. |
Apparently under the right growing conditions, they can go quite crazy. A friend from work had given me a plant, and she said her whole fence was covered with them without effort and in a dominating fashion. When planted on my patio, I only got a couple flowers. My patio was not the right growing condition though. It might have something to do with me being lazy and them requiring water... |
There's that. From what I've seen here in FL, they can either be cultivated or wild. When let go (wild) they do have a tendency to "take over". I don't know how far north they grow... |
They do fine in the Bay Area -- they'll cover a chainlink fence in no time. They do produce fruit, presumably edible since I've seen "Passion Fruit" listed in many drink blends ... |
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10/04/2014 08:29:27 PM · #12 |
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10/04/2014 08:31:15 PM · #13 |
Passion fruit is about the size and shape of a lime, but with a hard shell. You cut it open with a sharp knife. What's inside is a slimy goo that looks like snot with seeds in it, but is one of the finest substances on the face of the earth. Tangy, sweet, with a bit of citrus flavor. Amazing.
The passion fruit in my backyard is one of the things I miss most about Southern California. |
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10/04/2014 09:30:52 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by Ann:
The passion fruit in my backyard is one of the things I miss most about Southern California. |
If you have a South- or West-facing window you might be able to grow one in a large (e.g. 5-gal.) pot, maybe with a tomato-cage to train it up ... |
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