Common name:Passion Flower Red
Regional name:Marathi - Lal Krishna Kamal
- Category:
- Climbers, Creepers & Vines
- Family:
- Passifloraceae or Passion flower family
- Light:
- Sun growing, Semi shade
- Water:
- Normal, Can tolerate more
- Primarily grown for:
- Flowers
- Flowering season:
- Year-around flowering, Flowers in flushes throughout the year
- Flower or Inflorescence color:
- Red
- Foliage color:
- Green
- Plant Height or length:
- 6 to 8 meters
- Plant Form:
- Climbing or growing on support
- Special Character:
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- Auspicious or Feng Shui plant
- Plant for puja or prayer flower or leaves
- Can grow on trellis or chain link fencing
- Attracts butterflies
- Must have for Farm house or big gardens
- Generally available in India in quantities of:
- Less than a hundred
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Plant Description:
- - This is a large evergreen climber.
- The flowers are pretty. It is said that the five central anthers represent the five victorious Pandavas and the numerous petals below the hundred Kauravas.
- Nation Tropical South America.
- This is a very free blooming red variety. A species with beautiful flowers.
- Leaves are undivided ovate 8 - 15 cm long, coarsely toothed.
- Flower of medium size 5 - 6 cm in diameter.
- Sepals red, yellowish outside.
- Petals growing scarlet, corona orange.
- Ovoid yellow or orange fruit 5 cm dia & edible. Fruit is most attractive. Fruit size of a small orange smells of a mix of many tropical fruits. This is edible and made into many juices and cocktails.
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Growing tips:
- - Hardy climbers.
- Require well drained soils.
- Will need strong supports as the vines are long lived and can get heavy.
- Best planted in locations where they will get a minimum of half a days sunlight - more is fine.
- If planting along a fence - plant at a distance of 1 meter.
- Can be grown well in large pots as well.
- Will require an annual trimming.
