The Passion Flower – Passiflora

The Passion Flower – Passiflora – is a genus with over 500 species of flowering plants belonging to family Passifloraceae.
The most popular species of Passiflora is The Blue Passion Flower – Passiflora caerulea – also known as Common Passion Flower.

The Passion Flower a vine native of South America, Asia and Australia, and a very popular house flowering plant, full of good energies because of its special religious symbols. Passiflora brings peace in your house too.Name

Passiflora’s flower is extremely popular, known all over the world as “The Passion Flower”. We want to point out that its name doesn’t come from the passion of love, but refers to The Passion of Christ on the cross, so named because of its unique physical structures that suggest the symbols of Crucifixion.
In the same spirit, Passiflora is known as “Espina de Cristo” (Christ’s Thorn) in Spain.

Description

Its stem has simple ramifications with tendrils and green glace lobed leaves. The perfumed flower is complex and also special with a charming blooming. The sepals and petals are similar in appearance, because of them interfering. They are surmounted by a corona of blue or violet filaments. The Blue passion flower’s fruit is an oval yellow-orange berry, containing several seeds.

Flowering

Passiflora is a plant with a speedy growing since spring till autumn and it usually blooms in summer and autumn too, but in tropical climates it will flower all year round.

Passiflora growing

During summer, we recommend you to maintain the soil always wet and also to sprinkle its leaves even once in a day if there is less moisture than the plant wants. Add some fertilizer once in two weeks. The Passion Flower needs moderate warmth (between 15 and 20 degrees centigrade) and luminous places, also enjoys the direct sun. In winter, you have to reduce the watering and remove the Passiflora in a luminous and less warm space (10-15 degrees), for a light resting.
The appropriate soil is a potting mix of leaves soil, manure, garden soil and sand.
In spring you have to prune The Passion Flower for a more luxuriant ramification and a better flowering, cutting its lateral sprigs at 5-6 centimeters. It’s the right time to use a wooden holder for sustaining the plant regular growing.

Multiplication

The Passion Flower’s multiplication is through cuttings and you have to do it in spring. The cuttings are “semi wood” parts of the sprigs that have to be pot for striking roots in a loose soil, alike the peat, with a high temperature and moisture. As a trick, we recommend you to cover the pot cuttings with jars.

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