Today’s (wordy? ;)) Wordless Wednesday photo was taken on New Year’s Day. I was thrilled to see the first opened bud on my Passiflora Alatocaerulea:
This passionflower was hybridized in 1824 from a cross of P. Caerulea (blue) and P.Alato (creamy white.) It has three-lobed leaves with the most mature foliage appearing a darker green than younger leaves. There are slight color variations among this cultivar, most prominently the number of white bands on the coronal filaments. As with many hybrid varieties, it may be sold under different names, with Passiflora x Belotti and P. Imperatrice Eugenie being the most common.
If you’d like more info on P. Alatocaerulea DON’T waste time on Google. (I’ve already done that for you! 🙄 ) Head directly to the definitive source, Passiflora Online!
Until next time…..
🙂 🙂 🙂
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21 thoughts on “Wordless Wednesday: January 2, 2013”
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Hi there, thanks for the link up! xx
You’re quite welcome! I love Zemanta links…I’ve found lots of interesting blogs that way. 🙂
Oh wow – what a beauty this is…
Wordless Wednesday indeed…hehehe
Thanks for the pingback ma’am.
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Passiflora’s kill me with their detail!
So gorgeous! You are so talented, Karen!
Thank you! The climate helps a lot! 🙂
Lovely flowers it’s so beautiful.Thank you so much Karen.
Hi Rimas! this particular variety is really eyecatching.
thanks for popping in and commenting.
Beautiful!
Aren’t they? Their complexity is almost surreal.
I’ve never seen that kind. In fact, I never saw a single passionflower until I moved here to Oklahoma and it tried to take over my porch! It seems I have a passiflora incarnata. Good to know!
I first learned of these flowers last year during certification training: I was shocked to read they grow readily (and well!) in Massachusetts…somehow I NEVER ran across them there…or in VA. where I lived for 5years!
There are over 400 different varieties, of which I grow 2 others: P. Incense which is a cross between your variety and P.Cincinnata; and an unidentified pass-along that although a year old has yet to set flowers.
I’m not surprised your incarnata hijacked your porch! Anything that grows up to 3 ft in one day is hard to keep in check!
Happy New Year, in your first full year as a family! May all good things come your way, Dena. 🙂
They have such fascinating forms, beautiful!
yes, you hit the nail on the (flower)head! 🙂 Such complexity!
thanks for adding me in your pingback links!
Gorgeous!
From what I read, it seems they flourish in areas with Maritime Climate. Do you grow any Passionvines?
Had one in the polytunnel but it was such a rampant spreader that I uprooted it.
They pop up everywhere in my yard so I understand what you mean! I’ve started putting the “extras” in pots with hopes of using them in hanging baskets around the porch….not sure if this will work out, but it’s either that or the scrap pile!
So pretty and charming. 🙂