Passiflora tripartita mollissima | Banana Poke Passion Flower | 50_Seeds USDA Hardiness Zone 7b

Passiflora tripartita mollissima | Banana Poke Passion Flower | 50_Seeds USDA Hardiness Zone 7bThis is Passiflora tripartita mollissima, also known as Banana Passion Flower, and Banana Poke. This tropical vine will attract a variety of birds, bees, and butterflies. It likes to live in full sun or partial shade where it will bloom repeatedly from the middle of the Summer until early Fall. This plant grows sweet edible fruit. This is a host plant for the Zebra Long Wing, Zebra Heliconian, Julia Heliconian, Isabellas Heliconian, Banded Orange

This cultivar is compact and a vigerous grower with fragrant flowers

This is Passiflora suberosa

This strange and rare variety of Passiflora quadrangularis has phallic shaped fruit

USDA Hardiness Zone 4 to 10

also known as Velcro Passion Flower

This vine likes to live in the sun and can grow about 8 feet long

This plant likes to live in full sun where it will blossom from early Spring until late Summer

After this plant matures it has a tiny purplish black and red single floweret in the center of the top umbrella

This is Actaea pachypoda

meaning that the cross pollination was done and then the seeds were collected from those first generation plants

and Mylotes Cattleheart butterflies

Giant Swallowtail