Happy New Passiflora Year

This year is looking if it will be a good one. With the mild winter we have had, some of our passiflora has already started to grow and shoot. Most of the species and hybrids we have have survived so far. A new hybrid P. conzattiana x P. "Becky Speed" has come up from seed and looks healthy, it should have a good flower, hopefully similar to P. "Palomas Delight". The status of P. "Becky Speed" though is not good, with less than 5 healthy plants or cuttings.

                       Passiflora "Becky Speed" cuttings .                                          A. Wren

Will add a few more pictures to this blog, as things start to flower. A Visit to Kew will happen in February too.

Passiflora nephrodes

We have been busy recently with our passiflora collection, so have not posted much recently.

Here is a photo of nephrodes which flowered today.

Passiflora Lucy Zara x quinquangularis Plant 1

A couple of pictures of this new hybrid, which flowered for the first time today, it was a result of a cross done during last winter, in the heliquarium.

This is a cross between the hybrid 'Lucy Zara' (conzatiana x citrina) and quiquangularis.

We have plenty of cuttings from Plant 1, and from Plant 2 [not flowered yet] of this hybrid.

Passiflora 'Lucy Zara'

Here is a picture of another of my 2004 hybrids, Passiflora Lucy Zara, which flowers most days in my collection, the first picture is the plant 2, which most or all the surviving plants originate.

 

Passiflora 'Lucy Zara'

Passiflora Lucy Zara, is growing at Kew Gardens, and i have 5 plants in my greenhouse, and a back-up plant on holiday in an orchid house.

Sanguinolenta x Quinquangularis [Martins Magic]

My flower bud on the new hybrid xerogona is forming, looks like it may be a pink flower.
I have other seedlings of this cross which look different, so this is seedling 1.

 Below a picture of the flower, better photo to follow.

Martins Magic has survived well and there are now about 15 plants, hopefully some will be availible later this year.

Passiflora Colinvauxii

Had 2 flowers of this lovely passionflower today.

Passiflora Palomas Delight

Another hybrid from 2004, named after Paloma who works at Kew Gardens, who was the first to flower this hybrid, and her delight in beating my original plant, with her cutting flowering first. The same parents as P. Becky Speed. P. Palomas Delight is not in any known collections anymore, although a plant may exist somewhere as mentioned in the Becky Speed post.