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Random Musings => Miscellany => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Cudzoziemiec on 07 October, 2016, 03:26:55 pm

Title: What's this plant?
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 07 October, 2016, 03:26:55 pm
A creeper or climbing fruit bush of some sort, growing on a southwest facing wall in Bristol, UK.

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5779/30171271705_3390c9f73c_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/MY8DVK)

Quite distinctive white flowers with purple streaks.
(https://c7.staticflickr.com/9/8418/30136540926_0a427ebc87_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/MV4DFd)

The fruit resembles apricot on the outside, though the leaves look more like some sort of citrus to me.
(https://c7.staticflickr.com/9/8418/30136540926_0a427ebc87_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/MV4DFd)

But looking inside the fruit, it's nothing like either.
(https://c6.staticflickr.com/9/8535/30171246245_f451a506f7_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/MY8wmM)
Title: Re: What's this plant?
Post by: benborp on 07 October, 2016, 03:33:16 pm
It's certainly a passion flower. Looks like a blue passion flower to me.
Title: Re: What's this plant?
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 07 October, 2016, 03:52:34 pm
Yeah? I did think the fruit looked like passion fruit but I've never seen the whole plant before. Edible, then!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: What's this plant?
Post by: T42 on 07 October, 2016, 04:37:12 pm
The one on the left looks ready to eat the other one.
Title: Re: What's this plant?
Post by: HeltorChasca on 07 October, 2016, 06:26:17 pm
Good growing Good ID benborp Good hallucination T42
Title: Re: What's this plant?
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 16 October, 2016, 07:39:36 pm
I didn't grow it!  :o It's in the University's Royal Fort Gardens.
Title: Re: What's this plant?
Post by: djmc on 16 October, 2016, 08:12:52 pm
We have one in the garden (we live in Brittany). It flowers from June to the first frosts or cold weather. It grows like a triffid but it is not completely hardy. The fruit is edible but doesn't taste of much. It will take from cuttings and will also grow from seed. In some ways it is a bit of a weed but very decorative. We have fairly acid soil here as well as having a mild climate. The one we have was here when we came here, but it is well worth trying to grow.
Title: Re: What's this plant?
Post by: Legs on 28 October, 2016, 02:28:18 pm
Blimey, I'm not green-fingered by any stretch but even I recognised that one!  I've never noticed one fruiting in the UK, though...
Title: Re: What's this plant?
Post by: Riggers on 30 March, 2017, 10:09:05 am
I believe the fruit of the Passion Flower we grow over here (i.e.: like the above) is poisonous Chaps. So don't do it. You've been warned.
Title: Re: What's this plant?
Post by: djmc on 29 April, 2017, 04:53:02 pm
As I said above, we have one. I don't harvest the fruit but I do eat it occasionally. It doesn't have a strong taste, or indeed much taste at all, but I wouldn't think it is poisonous.
Title: Re: What's this plant?
Post by: ElyDave on 30 April, 2017, 10:46:01 am
Quote from: Legs on 28 October, 2016, 02:28:18 pm
Blimey, I'm not green-fingered by any stretch but even I recognised that one!  I've never noticed one fruiting in the UK, though...

Some friends in London used to have a small very sunny courtyard garden and they had one growing up an entire wall.  FRuited consistently, but I think they mostly got eaten by the birds
Title: Re: What's this plant?
Post by: spindrift on 30 April, 2017, 04:21:49 pm
The flower itself has loads of religious meaning, specifically the crucifixion, notice how there are 3 bits in the middle, like the 3 things of Jesus, and 12 outer bits of flower, like the 12 Jesus things.

(http://passionflowerpower.com/images/symbolism.png)
Title: Re: What's this plant?
Post by: Jaded on 08 May, 2018, 05:35:48 pm
I'm going to tag onto this thread...

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/IMG_2913.jpg)
Title: Re: What's this plant?
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 08 May, 2018, 07:30:29 pm
Silene dioica.
Title: Re: What's this plant?
Post by: L CC on 08 May, 2018, 09:04:15 pm
Campion, to us lesser mortals.
Title: Re: What's this plant?
Post by: Jaded on 08 May, 2018, 11:10:54 pm
Thanks!
Title: Re: What's this plant?
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 08 May, 2018, 11:48:00 pm
There's a related plant called Ragged Robin, which used to be called Lychnis flos-cuculi, but is now Silene flos-cuculi. Worth looking for in wet meadows, as it photographs well.

(https://wildseed.co.uk/image/402/large)

https://wildseed.co.uk/species/view/81
Title: Re: What's this plant?
Post by: Aunt Maud on 29 May, 2018, 06:50:03 am
Hiding under a Hazel from the shock and awe mowing on a woody bank...... Any ideas, smells heavenly ?

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/902/40616906550_09b22348ad_h.jpg)
Title: Re: What's this plant?
Post by: Aunt Maud on 30 May, 2018, 10:04:28 pm
It's OK, I've found it...Dames' Violet Hesperis matronalis
Title: Re: What's this plant?
Post by: T42 on 31 May, 2018, 07:53:26 am
Quote from: spindrift on 30 April, 2017, 04:21:49 pm
The flower itself has loads of religious meaning, specifically the crucifixion, notice how there are 3 bits in the middle, like the 3 things of Jesus, and 12 outer bits of flower, like the 12 Jesus things.

(http://passionflowerpower.com/images/symbolism.png)

I've seen similar "reasoning" applied to a pack of cards.

Isn't there a HHGTTG aside about sufficient ingenuity and wishful thinking?
Title: Re: What's this plant?
Post by: Heat on 07 September, 2018, 11:01:04 am
That is the Maracusha !
Title: Re: What's this plant?
Post by: Jaded on 24 November, 2018, 12:32:08 am

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/PB220012%201.jpg)

 ???
Title: Re: What's this plant?
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 25 November, 2018, 07:06:07 am
Google seems to think it's a Chinese Hibiscus - no idea if that's correct as I know nothing about flowers, but the pictures seem similar to me.
Title: Re: What's this plant?
Post by: T42 on 25 November, 2018, 08:08:49 am
It's life, Jim, but not as we know it:

(http://www.pbase.com/johnewing/image/152136048.jpg)
(fotabug's hibiscus, Kubrick's spaceship, NASA's star image and my thievery)
Title: Re: What's this plant?
Post by: Jaded on 25 November, 2018, 07:13:41 pm
We thought hibiscus, but are mainly crap at flowers!