P. Racemosa

I just love the way they flower in clusters.

Here is a flower, something ate one of the petals.

oh just beautiful!

Another cluster(it has three)

Wonderful!

How big is it and how long did it take to start blooming? I have three small ones growing in a 3 gallon pot, but they're only around 3 feet tall, and don't seem to be the fastest growers.

I really hope mine bloomes this year, they look awesome.
Mark

Susie, that is DEVINE!

How unusual!
...wish it also came in blue or purple! lol...
-T

Racemosa is one of those weird passifloras, if you root a cutting that doesn't have a growing tip, the cutting will root but it will never grow. But if you cut the growing tip from a vine(to root), it takes about a year to make a side branch on the old vine that will flower. My vine is multi-stemmed, about 15-20 feet long and grows up into an orchid tree. I think it's 4 or 5 years old, I got it from Dee in Florida a long time ago.

It is neat because it is different, and I happen to love plants with flowering racemes, of any kind...

The plant I am sending you has long racemes, too, but not as "real red"...more of an orangey red...

One of my very favorite passies is the p. membranacea. I is very atypical of the standard passie and quite unusual, too...it cannot take the extreme heat we get here, though, sadly...

Is your racemosa like that? Does it prefer cooler temperatures?
-T

I have mine in part shade, it didn't like the hot afternoon sun.