Turns out maypops like to grow on blackberry bushes.
![[Maypops, Passiflora incarnata]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2025-08-22--maypops/20250822_173808.jpg)
And these Passiflora incarnata produce tasty fruits on these Rubus occidentalis. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Blackberry
Maypops 2025-05-30
Scattered across an acre like this, growing on blackberry bushes, maypop is one of the most recognizable flowers.
![[Maypops]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2025-05-30--maypops/20250530_193817.jpg)
Aka Passionflower, Passiflora incarnata is the host plant of the Gulf fritillary butterfly, Dione vanillae. The adult butterflies plant eggs on maypops, and the caterpillars eat the leaves. http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/blog/?p=9756
![[Climbing on blackberry bushes]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2025-05-30--maypops/20250530_193826.jpg)
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Box turtle and oblivious Yellow Dog 2020-06-11
Apparently box turtles don’t like blackberries, even when Gretchen offers them. And Yellow Dog doesn’t notice turtles.
![[Gretchen offers blackberry to turtle]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-06-11--turtle-dog/20200611_112541.jpg)
Gretchen offers blackberry to turtle
Blueberries
Blackberries
Red and black:
Red and black
John S. Quarterman, Gretchen Quarterman,
Brown Dog, Yellow Dog,
Pictures by Gretchen Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 2012-07-26.
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Blackberries blooming
Rubus some native species or other in the woods:
Pictures by John S. Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 17 March 2011.
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In the spring piney woods
White mushroom under leaves:
Blackberry:
Stinging nettle:
Pictures by Gretchen Quarterman,Lowndes County, Georgia, 19 April 2010.