Passiflora (Passion flower)

Passiflora (Passion flower)
(photo by: Cowboy)
Status: Identified
Number of comments: 9
Note: Saw that at the Zoo. I know it's not a native species but it was neat-looking. Have fun trying to identify it! (I have tons of weird photos from the zoo of really exotic plants. I'll post them when it gets boring.)

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This is a fuschia plant. What zoo did you take this picture at? My husband is a plant collector and this is one we no longer have due to moves around the state.

Anonymous on 6/22/2008 9:52:58 AM

I was wrong by saying that is a fuschia plant. My first instinct was right..But, I ask my hubby and he said fuschia.
What it is actyually is a passion flower and the specie name is
Passiflora alata. There are about 500 different species of the passion flower and a lot of them are on the endangered species list. You got a great photo of this plant.

Anonymous on 6/22/2008 10:07:19 AM

I can't find any fuschia that looks like this one. It's those things (lol)hanging down that are stumping me. Do you know what kind of fuschia? Is it a sub-species or a hybrid maybe? I searched under those headings and still could not find one.

sherryl on 6/22/2008 10:10:18 AM

I was going to say those things reminded me of a passion flower. Didn't want to seem silly though, because I'm used to seeing them from the top not the side or bottom. So, I guess we agree on Passion flower then.

sherryl on 6/22/2008 10:15:19 AM

If a Passiflora the leaves will be green and glossy in line with most evergreen plants of which this is. i can understand the confusion with a Fuchia (looking at this photo) but in England this looks almost certainly like Passiflora (Passionflower). Bring on the small orange coloured fruit afterwards in our Autumn time

Anonymous on 6/22/2008 10:54:30 AM

yes, Passion flower. We had a blue one. They are slightly messy in a conservatory as a lot of leaves and flowers fall. There is a perfumed one now I saw in a catalogue. Very complicated flower form. Supposed to have biblical meanings to all the flower parts.

Anonymous on 6/22/2008 11:20:58 AM

yup, Passiflora.

Anonymous on 6/22/2008 11:46:55 AM

I think that's definitely what it is, thanks guys.

Cowboy on 6/22/2008 2:15:59 PM

I think that's definitely what it is, thanks guys. By the way, I saw it at the Tulsa Zoo.

Cowboy on 6/22/2008 2:18:00 PM

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