A maypop flower on its vine, growing on beautyberry and greenbriar.
Also known as Passion flower, Passiflora incarnata.
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A maypop flower on its vine, growing on beautyberry and greenbriar.
Also known as Passion flower, Passiflora incarnata.
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The maypop Gretchen staked three weeks ago has climbed up the stake.
Maypop, fruit, dogs 2023-05-29
Gretchen tied it on some more. Continue reading
Update 2023-05-30: Maypop fruit 2023-05-29.
This maypop is growing in an area we burned in January, and it had nothing to climb up on.
So Gretchen put in a stake for this Passiflora incarnata.
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Now that it’s raining, there are many native, tasty, showy maypops. Also known as passion flower, Passiflora incarnata.
Unfortunately, there is also nasty invasive exotic Japanese climbing fern, Lygodium japonicum. Continue reading
A late June day.
Maypop, bananas, cypress swamp, Arrow in bathtub
A month later, the Passiflora incarnata are still blooming, there are more banana bunches now, there are puddles in the cypress swamp, and Arrow still likes to cool off in her bathtub. Continue reading
Four fruits grew on this vine, then fell down. The one in Gretchen’s hand we found caught half way down. It seemed to be ripe, so we tested it.
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