Gretchen with a very long passion flower vine with a flower on top of a large outcrop of smilax vine. This is the sweet smelling smilax, which I think is Smilax smallii, aka lancleaf greenbrier.
The passion flower vine has a fruit, maybe where wildlife won’t eat it. Continue reading
Blooming with blackberry.
Passion flower, Passiflora incarnata
Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia
Picture by John S. Quarterman, 5 July 2010.
Here it is on its vine:
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Picture by Gretchen Quarterman.
More pictures, from last year.
More about Passiflora incarnata.
Found in the woods on 12 June 2008:
Here’s one just opening on 4 June:
There are still a few blooming. The flowers look nice on the plant, but don’t last if you pick them.
Many of them have already made fruits. I hear you can eat those.