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Passiflora morifolia

I think mfd's comment above is about Passiflora incarnata. :-)

P. morifolia has grown quickly from a seedling this spring and has been blooming well in the heat. It's formed lots of fruits too. However, the flowers are small and not very colorful. Really not all that interesting.

I have one growing now that I planted near a window thinking I would be able to watch a trailing vine with pretty flowers. Turns out the flowers are very small and not showy at all. It has grown leaps and bounds, but I wouldn't use it again. It's now developing fruit that I don't think I'll try to eat and if it's pods I don't care to have seeds.

I live in south eastern Arkansas. I have known about this plant sence I was just a child, now 44 I recieved a book on medicinal plants and our P morifolia was in it! It can be used as a sleep aid or a seditive, the fruit is ediable The fruit when green is tangy and when rippened it is a delight. The florial is used as a seditive. I am sitting here with one now. It grows very well here along roads and out in fields and pastures in thick vines some growing as tall as a tree their fruits hanging like small green watermellons. When we were children we were told they were May Pops and were poison, now I know why. It was the florial, some people are alergic to it and as I said befor it is a sleep aid and seditive used in to big a dose it can make you very ill, vomiting, spontanious sleeping, head ache. It grows here from early spring till late autume flowering and produceing fruit all summer long. A very productive plant.