Passiflora caerulea
HARDY BLUE PASSION FLOWER
SKU: 25-005
Blue Passion Flower is a vigorous, tendril growing to 10 m (33 ft) or more, with blue-white flowers with a prominent fringe of coronal filaments in bands of blue, white, and brown.
This popular and showy plant has attracted a number of common names. In Paraguay it is widely known as mburucuy? in Guaran??. Other names include blue crown, flower of five wounds, southern beauty, wild apricot, Jesus flower.
Passiflora caerulea is a woody capable of growing to 15-20 m (50 to 65 ft) high where supporting trees are available. The leaves are alternate, palmately five-lobed like a spread hand (sometimes three or seven lobes). The base of each leaf has a tendril which twines around supporting vegetation to hold the plant up.
The flower is large, about 10 cm (4 in) in diameter, with the five sepals and petals similar in appearance, whitish in color, surmounted by a corona of blue or violet filaments, then five greenish-yellow stamens and three purple stigmas. In tropical climates, it will flower all year round. The ovoid orange fruit, growing to 6 cm (2 in), is edible but bland.
Passiflora caerulea is widely cultivated as a wall-climber or as groundcover. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit!
Hardiness zones: 6-10
Type: Climbing vine, hardy perennial
Location: Sun or part sun
Seeds per packet: 5
Blue Passion Flower is a vigorous, tendril growing to 10 m (33 ft) or more, with blue-white flowers with a prominent fringe of coronal filaments in bands of blue, white, and brown.
This popular and showy plant has attracted a number of common names. In Paraguay it is widely known as mburucuy? in Guaran??. Other names include blue crown, flower of five wounds, southern beauty, wild apricot, Jesus flower.
Passiflora caerulea is a woody capable of growing to 15-20 m (50 to 65 ft) high where supporting trees are available. The leaves are alternate, palmately five-lobed like a spread hand (sometimes three or seven lobes). The base of each leaf has a tendril which twines around supporting vegetation to hold the plant up.
The flower is large, about 10 cm (4 in) in diameter, with the five sepals and petals similar in appearance, whitish in color, surmounted by a corona of blue or violet filaments, then five greenish-yellow stamens and three purple stigmas. In tropical climates, it will flower all year round. The ovoid orange fruit, growing to 6 cm (2 in), is edible but bland.
Passiflora caerulea is widely cultivated as a wall-climber or as groundcover. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit!
Hardiness zones: 6-10
Type: Climbing vine, hardy perennial
Location: Sun or part sun
Seeds per packet: 5
