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The listing, Vikki'sGarden◠◡✿BLUE PASSION CAERULA ~HISTORICAL VINE ~ 15 SEEDS has ended.

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BLUE PASSION VINE
Passion Caerula

Turn your Shabby Chic Garden into a marvel for your senses! Enjoy every minute as this intensely scented flower with its cream petals and complex blue coronal filaments of deep purple, lavender and white, reaches for the Heavens on this fast growing vine set against deep green foliage. Between July and October your Passion Vine will also produce a semi-sweet yellow-orange oval fruit (smaller than a lemon) which is bland (compared to the MayPop) but edible.

A Little History: How the word "Passion" became associated with this plant.
Fleur de Passiflore (Flower of Passion)

Peru, 1856. Spanish explorer's came across this fascinating vine and believed its intricate flower held all the signs and markings of Jesus last days, called the "Christ Passion" - - -believing this find to be a 'good omen' this flower led them to continue their exploration.

What the Spanish saw:
The ten petals and sepals represent the ten faithful apostles (excluding St. Peter the denier and Judas Iscariot the betrayer).
The flower's radial filaments, which can number more than a hundred and vary from flower to flower, represent the crown of thorns.
The 3 stigmas represent the 3 nails and the 5 anthers below them the 5 wounds (four by the nails and one by the lance).

ZONES: 5-10 (all zones, especially 5, should keep 2" of mulch at the base of this plant all season). Moderate water. Well draining soil.
FULL SUN
EARLY SOW: 6-8 WEEKS BEFORE LAST FROST. Soak seeds 24 hours in orange juice. Plant 1/4 in good soil and cover pot with plastic or tent cover - set pot in a bright-warm 70 degree area. Plant in ground when soil is warm. If potted, overwinter inside.

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Questions & Comments

Love love love mine!! Also called Maypop. Because it may just pop out flowers all year lol. An old story behind these being called the passionflower. Oh something like this
The 10 Main petals are for the 10 Commandments, The long purple he hires are for the 40 years forgot with the five petals were for but the three stamens at the top and center of this beautiful flower is for the three on the crosses.
Always thought it was a beautiful story and explained the magnificence of this flower, so I had to share !!

Jan 9th, 2016 at 10:18:49 AM PST by

Thanks for sharing and I concur it is a most unique vine. Did you also know it was in large part due to this flower that the mighty Aztec nation was destroyed? It's true. The Spaniards were sick and about to turn around and go home when they came upon this flower and believed it to be a sacred omen to press forward...which they did, eventually leveling the mighty empire.

Jan 9th, 2016 at 11:47:17 AM PST by

Wow no I didn't know that story
Love it when they come with ole tales!!

Jan 9th, 2016 at 12:19:17 PM PST by

Every living seed, like every living human, has a story. I won't grow something in my garden without first knowing its history. For some reason that makes it all the more special to me. Did you also know that probably 90% of the plants we grow today would have been considered sacred, grown only by priestess, and not for use by anyone but royals. Doing so would have insured your untimely death.

Jan 9th, 2016 at 12:52:04 PM PST by

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