Description
Hardly is there a flower that evokes a sense of the tropical more than the passion flowers. Passiflora incarnata is the hardiest of the passionflowers and is native to the eastern US where it grows as a herbaceous vine. Maypop has incredibly intricate purple and lavender flowers that are followed by greenish yellow, delicious and tangy passionfruits. ‘Pink Pop’ is a special colour form with beautiful large, fragrant, prolifically blooming, lavender-pink flowers. Often freezes to the ground and comes back in the spring. Self-fertile though plants are apparently andromonoecious producing hermaphroditic and male flowers on the same vine. Under conditions, seasons or years when plants produce a higher proportion of male flowers, there can be less to no fruit set. So if your goal is to get fruit, plant more than one vine and, for good measure, choose different cultivars/clones since pollination in many plants can be more complete when plants with different genetics cross.
