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Species: Passiflora
Latin name: Passiflora Caerulea L.
Other usual name: Clock Faced Flowers - Christ's Thorn - Mother of God's Star, fr: fleur de la passion, de: passion blume
Variety: Caerulea
Family: Passifloraceae
Origin: South America
Passion Flower : Is a climbing shrub, vigorous, and appreciates a very sunny exposure. The foliage is alternate of a glossy green color and very deeply lobed. Beautiful very original scented flowers of creamy-white and purple-blue zoned coronas which have an almost plastic looking appearance, passion flower blooms all summer long. Ideal to hide walls, because it climbs up until 5 meters height. The fruit is an oval orange yellow berry. Pollination sometimes difficult.
Seed sowing: In spring
Flowering of passiflora: May to October
Height: Passions flowers reach on average 5 meters
Exposure: Sunny, Middle shade
Sowing instructions: Seed sowing in heated greenhouse, soak seeds for 24 hours in milk to help germination. Fill pots with a substrate made up of 1/3 of sand and 2/3 of compost, plant seeds in a depth of 1 cm, keep soil slightly wet to avoid the appearance of rot. Cover pot with a clear plastic or plant in a mini greenhouse and put in a very light place at approximately 24°C. Germination can take until 1à 3 months, you got to be patient!!!
Seed germination: 1 to 3 months
Minimum seed sowing temperature: 21 °C to 29°C
Net weight of seeds: 10 seeds
All our seeds are sold with their sowing instructions.
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