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Hardiness: USDA Zone 7a: to -17.7 °C (0 °F) USDA Zone 7b: to -14.9 °C (5 °F) USDA Zone 8a: to -12.2 °C (10 °F) USDA Zone 8b: to -9.4 °C (15 °F) USDA Zone 9a: to -6.6 °C (20 °F) USDA Zone 9b: to -3.8 °C (25 °F) USDA Zone 10a: to -1.1 °C (30 °F) USDA Zone 10b: to 1.7 °C (35 °F)
Sun Exposure: Sun to Partial Shade
Danger: Parts of plant are poisonous if ingested
Bloom Color: Red
Bloom Time: Mid Spring Late Spring/Early Summer Mid Summer Late Summer/Early Fall Mid Fall
Foliage: Velvet/Fuzzy-Textured
Other details: Average Water Needs; Water regularly; do not overwater
Soil pH requirements: 6.1 to 6.5 (mildly acidic) 6.6 to 7.5 (neutral)
Patent Information: Non-patented
Propagation Methods: By dividing rhizomes, tubers, corms or bulbs (including offsets) From herbaceous stem cuttings From woody stem cuttings From softwood cuttings From semi-hardwood cuttings From hardwood cuttings From hardwood heel cuttings By air layering
Seed Collecting: Allow unblemished fruit to ripen; clean and dry seeds Unblemished fruit must be significantly overripe before harvesting seed; clean and dry seeds
On Mar 25, 2005, mutant from Houston, TX (Zone 8b) wrote:
No doubt passifloras are my favorite flower this "granadilla" was given to me last fall and it's my second red passiflora the other one is all red (stem and flower) The "incense kind it's so fragant!(and purple) and the yellow kind are just a burst of color!
The friend who gave me this one told me was on sale for $1.99 (!) and bought it because knows how much I like this kind I send him a copy of the first pictures with a big thank you.
My "granadilla" does not clim much
On Sep 20, 2003, suncatcheracres from Old Town, FL wrote:
This plant was growing on a chainlink fence in the back yard of a house I bought in St. Petersburg, Florida, zone 9b, but it never fruited even though I had beautiful red flowers every year. Yesterday someone brought me some red colored passionflower fruit--we ate it and and it was absolutely delicious. I saved some seed and will be starting it next spring because the fruit was so delicious, and a nice size too, but I'm wondering if it is from this plant.
Does anyone know the actual color of P. coccinea's fruit? My Southern Living Garden book says the fruit is suppose to be a mottled orange or yellow, and rather good tasting, but these fruit were a deep coral red--almost a wine red--and I suppose they could be called mottled. The fruit we ate yesterday was bought from a fruit stand, so no clue as to which passiflora except the color of the fruit. The smell of the fruit lingered in the kitchen for hours! Just delicious.
On Jul 28, 2003, olds88lady from Macon, GA (Zone 8b) wrote:
I live in Zone 8 A just below the fall line. I planted this early last summer/spring and it grew like crazy. I transplanted it when I moved my garden to a different area and it did not come back up but we did have a very unusually cold and wet winter.
On Jul 27, 2003, mizy51 from Skipperville, AL wrote:
I'm in zone 8 so the vine is not evergreen for me. It does return every year with very vigorous growth throughout the summer. Blooms appear for me starting in July and continue until the first hard freeze.
On Jul 27, 2003, Thaumaturgist from Rockledge, FL (Zone 10a) wrote:
The petals resort to 3 distinctly different configurations
in 3 different times of the day.
The opening in the morning and closing in the evening
are very different from each other while the petals
stay fully open and stretched out during the daytime.
I have used 3 photos to capture the 3 configurations.
Regional...
This plant has been said to grow in the following regions:
Skipperville, Alabama San Diego, California (2 reports) San Francisco, California Walnut Creek, California Anthony, Florida Bartow, Florida Gulf Breeze, Florida Hialeah, Florida Merritt Island, Florida Ocala, Florida Rockledge, Florida Saint Augustine, Florida Saint Petersburg, Florida Seffner, Florida Tallahassee, Florida Venice, Florida Honomu, Hawaii Conway, South Carolina Houston, Texas San Antonio, Texas Spring, Texas
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