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Unidentified Wild Flower
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Posted by
tn_veggie_gardner 6 (
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Tue, Jul 15, 08 at 18:11
Please excuse me if I seem like a flower newbie, but I am. :) I found the flower below on a trail close to a lake that me & my wife like to take our kids on. Any ideas on what it is? Also, is there someplace on the flower I can get seeds to plant my own? Please let me know. Thanks! - Steve
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RE: Unidentified Wild Flower
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| looks like passion flower (passiflora incarnata) |
RE: Unidentified Wild Flower
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| Yes, this is a passionflower, and I think bubbleoffplumb has the species right. This is a native flower that is reasonably common in some places throughout the south. It can grow pretty vigorously, and has the great flowers you phtographed. It also gets fruit, which I think is edible although I have never eaten it myself. It attracts Gulf Fritillary butterflies, which are large and orange, and their caterpillars feed on the passionflower leaves, sometimes stripping the vines. |
RE: Unidentified Wild Flower
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- Posted by soeur z6b TN (My Page) on
Wed, Jul 16, 08 at 12:27
| That's the official state vine of Tennessee, by the way. It's much easier to start one from seed and plant it where you want it than to dig up an existing wild one. The plant develops a humongous tap root that's almost impossible to successfully excavate. The fruit ripens over time in late summer and early fall and is edible -- I've eaten 'em. Ripe seeds are black with minute dimples, about the size and general shape of a watermelon seed. The seed needs a cold period to germinate in spring, so the easiest thing is to shallowly bury an overripe fruit in the sunny spot where you want the plant. May have to thin out multiple seedlings. |
RE: Unidentified Wild Flower
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| cool...thanks for the info, y'all! :) |
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