PASSIFLORA caerulea
Blue Passion Flower

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Characteristic flowering full of symbols. This passionflower is the most hardy of all species of the genus, and the only one that can be installed outside without risk of frost until the Atlantic climate.

Remarks

Plant to South or West exposures. Clean the plant and prune short in late winter to promote a vigorous restart. The plant is suckering, but easily limited.

Sturdy climbing liana with semi-evergreen foliage, fingered leaves, summer complex flowers with white-green sepals, framing a radiating circle of bluish filaments, with the central pistil divided into a cross with 3 branches surrounding 5 stamens. The flowers are followed by orange oval fruits, edible but tasteless and floury.

Uses: Climber on grating, trellised

Global caracteristics:

Type of foliage: semi-evergreen
Habit: liana
Height: 5 m x 5 m (16 ft x 16 ft)
Growth: very fast
Flowering period: July to December
Époque de fructification : autumn

Shape and colours:

Foliage shape: digitate
Foliage colour: light green
Flowers shape: Single, stamens in circle
Flowers colour: blue
Forme des fruits : ovoid
Couleur des fruits : orange yellow
Parfum : yes

Plantation:

Soil type: rich, not too dry in summer
Exposure: sun, part-shade
Hardiness: - 10 °C (14 °F - USDA zone 8a)