PUSHING THE BORDERS

I came back from California in late 2009 with the seeds of a Passiflora hybrid called 'Mission Delores' this is a P. parritae X P antioquiensis hybrid. parritae is not at all easy but if you check out the web images you will see its a bit of a stunner. I wasn't able to bring back any plants of 'Mission Delores' (also a hansom plant) but it makes masses of fruits so I did come back with seed. This germinated easily but the subsequent seedlings died for past time so in desperation I stuck one in the ground where it proceeded to go mad but not flower. I started asking various plant contacts in California whether anybody else' s seedlings had flowered one person had had one miserable flower but that was it, so I resolved to steal my heart and compost mine but as I arrived to do the deed I noticed it is covered in flower buds :)

Not easy to do pictures as it seems to like to grow sideways through everything else

passiflra mission delores seedling 042 by charliepridham, on Flickr


passiflora mission delores seedling 041 by charliepridham, on Flickr

I like that. Are you saying it's been outside 3-4 years through the dodgy winters? Yes I know a 'dodgy cornish winter' is normally 4 inches more rain than summer but hardyish?

Lovely!

I can barely get my Amethyst to bloom outdoors!

If it has the Tasconia genes in it maybe it's not the best for sunny California?

flounder wrote:I like that. Are you saying it's been outside 3-4 years through the dodgy winters? Yes I know a 'dodgy cornish winter' is normally 4 inches more rain than summer but hardyish?

No, sorry if I gave that impression, its in the ground but in an unheated greenhouse

Very nice. There was a lovely passion flower at Tresco, I will dig out the photo, although stupidly I don' think I have the name (I may have been distracted by the giant agave that was growing next to it :oops: )

Its really getting going now

passiflora mission delours seedling 002 by charliepridham, on Flickr

passiflora mission dlores seedling 001 by charliepridham, on Flickr
Even setting seed

passiflora mission delours seedling pod 004 by charliepridham, on Flickr

passiflora mission delours seedling 003 by charliepridham, on Flickr

Think the tresco one may be slightly different


tresco-passionflower

That's most likely a good form of Passiflora x exoniensis its a hybrid of antioquiensis and mollissima and in its better forms closely resembles antioquiensis