| Scientific Name: | Passiflora (incl. hybrid cvs.) |
| Common Name: | passion flower, passion vine |
| Family Name: | Passifloraceae |
| Origin: | Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 8a: (-12 to -9.5 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Flowering pot plant, Indoor foliage plant, Vine or climber |
| Mature Size: | 3 - 5m x 1.5 - 2.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching |
| Form: | Climbing |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Fall interest, Indoor plant, Screening |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Lobed, Alternate, Leathery, Palmate venation, Glabrous, Orbicular, Entire, Palmately lobed |
| Flowers: | Flowers solitary, White, Blue, Violet, Purple, Pink, Red, Dark-red, Aug-Sep-Oct |
| Fruit: | Berry (true), Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Orange, Yellow, Purple, Dark-red, Oct-Nov |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Vigorous climber with stem tendrils at nodes, leaves alternate, orbicular, most 6-15(-15)cm long x 5-12cm wide, palmately veined with 3-7(-9) deep oblong lobes, rounded to narrow and pointed, some cvs. unlobed and ovate, leathery, dark green; flowers solitary, 8-10cm wide, tepals 10, commonly blue, violet, pink, purple, red, corona of numerous filaments, length and colour(s) vary with cultivar (one colour or less commonly banded); stamens 5 with greenish-yellow anthers on central column, pistil on top of column with 3 style branches with stigmas fragrant; berries (formed by most cvs.), oval, 3-6cm long x 2-4cm wide, yellow-orange, dark red-purple. | |