Passion Flower

Member of Passionflower Family(Pasiflora Incarnata)

Blooms: April - September

What a find!!! Usually Passion Flowers are light shades of purple. We found a pine thicket of small trees that were just covered with these vines. I have never seen or heard of a white one. It is truly the most beautiful flower I have found yet! They twine themselves around anything in their path and have an abundance of blooms. Click on picture to see the spectacular beauty of this one.

They form fruit pods in summer about the size of a lemon and turn yellow-orange in color. When stepped on they pop, giving it's more common name :May Pops. The fruit seeds inside are edible and have a sweet, but tart taste. Bees love the flowers and several species of butterflies use it as a food source for their larvae.

"To whom also HE shewed himself alive after HIS passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of GOD:

And being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jersusalem, but wait for the promise of the FATHER, which, saith HE, ye have heard of ME."

Acts 3-4