Maypop Purple Passion Flower

Maypop Purple Passion Flower Care

Passiflora Incarnata

Other names: True Passionflower, Wild Apricot, Wild Passion Vine

What is the plant

Passiflora incarnata, commonly known as maypop, purple passionflower, true passionflower, wild apricot, and wild passion vine, is a fast-growing perennial vine with climbing or trailing stems. A member of the passionflower genus Passiflora, the maypop has large, intricate flowers with prominent styles and stamens. The stems can be smooth or pubescent; they are long and trailing, possessing many tendrils. Leaves are alternate and palmately 3-lobed and occasionally 5-lobed, measuring 6–15 centimetres (2.4–5.9 in). They have two characteristic glands at the base of the blade on the petiole. Flowers have five bluish-white petals.

Historically, the plant has been used as a herbal medicine in the belief it may be used for anxiety, insomnia, or hypertension. In traditional medicine, passionflower is reputed to have a number of potential uses including diarrhoea, dysmenorrhoea, neuralgia, burns, haemorrhoids and insomnia as used historically in Europe,

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Humidity

Normal

Lighting

Part Sun

Hardiness zone

5 - 9

Difficulty

Medium

Hibernation

Cold Period

How to Care for the Plant

Water
The vine needs some irrigation in dry weather, but it is also tolerant of drought. Keep the moisture in the soil and the roots cool by spreading a loose mulch over the soil. In good conditions, the plants spread and thrive.
Pruning
Take out any broken, diseased or dead wood initially. Then, remove stems to those with numerous, healthy buds. The actual amount of plant material you remove should not be more than 1/3 of the plant’s size, which means annual pruning is an important step to keeping the vine in a certain habit.
Fertilizer
Fertilize the plant before new growth emerges in early spring, and then repeat every four to six weeks until early autumn.

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Soil
Maypop vine care is easy if you grow it in well-drained soil in a site that gets some sun. Full sun is fine, but part sun will also work well. The soil can be average since the plant is not demanding. Once your vine is established, you won't have much maypop passion flower care to worry about.
Temperature
This tropical-like vine prefers indoor temperatures that remain between 55 and 65 degrees F. (13-18 C.), but will tolerate slightly cooler conditions during winter months. While it enjoys lots of light, avoid any direct sun.
Container
4'' Pot

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Additional
The most common type of passion flower that bears edible fruit is Passiflora The purple passion-flower is a herbaceous vine, 25 foot long, which climbs with axillary tendrils or sprawls along the ground. In rare cases they can be white.
Popularity
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