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Passiflora antioquiensis

Up till now all plants of this I (and others) have tracked down have all turned out to be its hybrid Passiflora x exoniensis, beautiful but not the same thing! The true form of this species (which comes from Columbia in bandit country) has very long peduncles and the flowers can hang as much as a meter below the stems (but more typically 50cm when grown in pots). The flowers (which look similar to P. exoniensis) have a distinctive white ring at the centre, where P. x exoniensis is dark, it also freely produces viable seed where Passiflora x exoniensis seldom does. My stock came eventually from New Zealand via a kind Passiflora enthusiast (thank you Myles). Pictures of this plant match exactly P. antioquiensis. It does well in a cool unheated greenhouse (kept frost free) where it flowers early to late in the year, and looks stunning when seen dangling above. It remains evergreen throughout. I have not yet tried this outside, but it has survived 0c in the greenhouse.
First grown in the UK at the Lucombe and Pince nursery near Exeter in 1858 and later used in hybridization by the Veitch nursery to produce Passiflora x exoniensis 

I have left this page up for information only as sadly I moved this plant and lost it in the following cold winter when the pipes burst in the greenhouse and flooded the roots. I now have a new seedling which I am awaiting first flowers to check its the real thing

Passiflora antioquiensis

See below for a picture of fruitPassiflora antioquiensis

 

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