Passion Flower Waterloo Blue

Prefers average to moist well drained soils.

Passion flower waterloo blue. Beautiful sky blue petals corolla against fringed white petals. Flowers are ornate multi colored with a minty scent much like the fruit of the pineapple guava. Extremely fast growing hardy passionflower producing egg shaped orange fruits with deep red edible pulp although not as tasty as the purple passion fruit. A profuse bloomer with a soft fragrance followed by yellow orange fruit.

Passiflora caerulea waterloo blue passion flower. Blue passion flower passifloracaerulea waterloo blue. Buy passiflora caerulea waterloo blue hardy passionflower charlotte corday citrina and colinvauxii. Economic and other uses.

Blue passion flower passiflora caerulea. Blooms 8 cm are followed by egg size deep orange fruits from late summer through fall. Propagating blue passion flowers there are 2 techniques to multiply your blue passion flower. Host plant for the gulf fritillary butterfly.

Deep green finger like evergreen foliage. Deep green finger like foliage. The exotic beauty of its flowers is captivating. The fruits are edible but not very tasty with a vague flavor reminiscent of blackberry.

White sometimes pink flushed with a ring of blue white and purple filaments. It also spreads through cuttings. Best planted in a large container to control. Sowing from seeds and propagating cuttings.

It has been introduced elsewhere throughout the tropics. One of the most glamorous climbers award winning passiflora caerulea blue passion flower is a vigorous large semi evergreen climber with twining tendrils. Browse pictures and read growth cultivation information about passiflora blue passion flower hardy passionflower passion vine passiflora caerulea waterloo blue supplied by member gardeners. Passiflora caerulea the blue passionflower bluecrown passionflower or common passion flower is a species of flowering plant native to south america.

Note that seeds must be soaked for 24 hours before sowing. It is a vigorous deciduous or semi evergreen tendril vine growing to 10 m 33 ft or more. The ovoid orange fruit growing to 6 cm 2 in. Extremely vigorous plants can spread rapidly via rhizomes and can easily smother other plants if not kept in check.

Seeds are dispersed by mammals and birds. Its leaves are palmate and fragrant flowers blue white with a prominent fringe of coronal filaments in bands of blue white and brown. The attractive 3 in. Flowers of passiflora caerulea are generally not self fertile and will need other blue passionflower vines in close proximity to be cross pollinated.

Unique beautiful round blue and white flowers with tentacle like projections are produced throughout the summer. Passion flower seeds can be sown all year long.