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-====Passionflower==== +=====Passionflower===== 
 //(Passiflora incarnata)// //(Passiflora incarnata)//
  
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-**Common Names**+====Common Names====
 Passion flower, Passion fruit,Passion vine,  May pops, Jamaican honeysuckle, Apricot vine, Granadilla, Maracuja, Water lemon. Passion flower, Passion fruit,Passion vine,  May pops, Jamaican honeysuckle, Apricot vine, Granadilla, Maracuja, Water lemon.
  
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 Passionflower tends to grow in disturbed areas notably thickets, untended roads, paddocks, river banks and rail tracks. It prefers well drained soil. Passionflower tends to prefer a good amount of sunlight, at least half the day, not growing well in shade or beneath the tree canopy. It prefers a more sheltered area, with support for it’s vines – i.e. a tree or trellis for support. In the right conditions it can cover the floors of thickets in a few days. Passionflower can tolerate occasionally wet and acid conditions, however prefers a more neutral soil and is drought tolerant. From a gardening perspective, slow deep watering into a mulched root base is the best was to get the most out of the blooms into a mulched root base. The plant is also cold tolerant, in colder climates it will die right back, however, in warmer climates some foliage will remain on the plant throughout the year. Passionflower tends to grow in disturbed areas notably thickets, untended roads, paddocks, river banks and rail tracks. It prefers well drained soil. Passionflower tends to prefer a good amount of sunlight, at least half the day, not growing well in shade or beneath the tree canopy. It prefers a more sheltered area, with support for it’s vines – i.e. a tree or trellis for support. In the right conditions it can cover the floors of thickets in a few days. Passionflower can tolerate occasionally wet and acid conditions, however prefers a more neutral soil and is drought tolerant. From a gardening perspective, slow deep watering into a mulched root base is the best was to get the most out of the blooms into a mulched root base. The plant is also cold tolerant, in colder climates it will die right back, however, in warmer climates some foliage will remain on the plant throughout the year.
  
-**Description**+====Description====
 This is a rapid growing evergreen perennial vine plant, which climbs with multi trailing stems. Passionflower has an extensive root system, which sees the plant through winter. The passionflower has a pubescent or smooth cylindrical stem, although can be slightly angular when young. The stem is often long and trailing with many spring like tendrils. Passionflower’s leaves are a dull green in colour, they are 5-15cm in size, alternate and have between 3 and 5 lobes in a palmate formations, 3 lobed being more common. At the base of the blade of the petiole (the stalk that connects the leave to the stem) are two glands that secrete nectar. The flower has 10 whitish blue petals, with a white and purple corona, containing the stamen and sepals, arranged in a ring. These bloom mid summer onwards. The flower is often self sterile and often pollinated by insects such as bumble, honey and carpenter bees. However there are times when the plant has functional male and female reproductive parts as well as having only functional male parts. This aspect of having bisexual flowers is known as andromonoecy, it also regulates the amount of fruit on a vine.  The flowers turn into green fruit, maturing to a more wrinkly brown ovoid fruit after approximately 3 months, these are roughly the size and shape of a hens egg. Insider the pulp of the fruit is white becoming yellow on maturity surrounding the many ripe black seeds that are approximately 5mm in size. This is a rapid growing evergreen perennial vine plant, which climbs with multi trailing stems. Passionflower has an extensive root system, which sees the plant through winter. The passionflower has a pubescent or smooth cylindrical stem, although can be slightly angular when young. The stem is often long and trailing with many spring like tendrils. Passionflower’s leaves are a dull green in colour, they are 5-15cm in size, alternate and have between 3 and 5 lobes in a palmate formations, 3 lobed being more common. At the base of the blade of the petiole (the stalk that connects the leave to the stem) are two glands that secrete nectar. The flower has 10 whitish blue petals, with a white and purple corona, containing the stamen and sepals, arranged in a ring. These bloom mid summer onwards. The flower is often self sterile and often pollinated by insects such as bumble, honey and carpenter bees. However there are times when the plant has functional male and female reproductive parts as well as having only functional male parts. This aspect of having bisexual flowers is known as andromonoecy, it also regulates the amount of fruit on a vine.  The flowers turn into green fruit, maturing to a more wrinkly brown ovoid fruit after approximately 3 months, these are roughly the size and shape of a hens egg. Insider the pulp of the fruit is white becoming yellow on maturity surrounding the many ripe black seeds that are approximately 5mm in size.
  
-**Cultivation**+====Cultivation====
 Seeds can be collected after the fruit has begun to wrinkle, planted or  stored for use the following year. Passionflower can be tricky to grow from seeds, taking approximately 2-3 months for a seed to germinate, sometimes as a long as a year. Seeds can be collected after the fruit has begun to wrinkle, planted or  stored for use the following year. Passionflower can be tricky to grow from seeds, taking approximately 2-3 months for a seed to germinate, sometimes as a long as a year.
  

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