Author Topic: What's this plant? (Read 8973 times)

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.

Quite distinctive white flowers with purple streaks.

The fruit resembles apricot on the outside, though the leaves look more like some sort of citrus to me.

But looking inside the fruit, it's nothing like either.

benborp · « **Reply #1 on:** 07 October, 2016, 03:33:16 pm »

It's certainly a passion flower. Looks like a blue passion flower to me.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2 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!

T42 · « **Reply #3 on:** 07 October, 2016, 04:37:12 pm »

The one on the left looks ready to eat the other one.

HeltorChasca · « **Reply #4 on:** 07 October, 2016, 06:26:17 pm »

Good growing

Good ID benborp

Good hallucination T42

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #5 on:** 16 October, 2016, 07:39:36 pm »

I didn't grow it!

It's in the University's Royal Fort Gardens.

djmc · « **Reply #6 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.

Legs · « **Reply #7 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...

Riggers · « **Reply #8 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.

djmc · « **Reply #9 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.

ElyDave · « **Reply #10 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

spindrift · « **Reply #11 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.

Jaded · « **Reply #12 on:** 08 May, 2018, 05:35:48 pm »

I'm going to tag onto this thread...

Exit Stage Left · « **Reply #13 on:** 08 May, 2018, 07:30:29 pm »

Silene dioica.

L CC · « **Reply #14 on:** 08 May, 2018, 09:04:15 pm »

Campion, to us lesser mortals.

Jaded · « **Reply #15 on:** 08 May, 2018, 11:10:54 pm »

Thanks!

Exit Stage Left · « **Reply #16 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/species/view/81

Aunt Maud · « **Reply #17 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 ?

Aunt Maud · « **Reply #18 on:** 30 May, 2018, 10:04:28 pm »

It's OK, I've found it...Dames' Violet Hesperis matronalis

T42 · « **Reply #19 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.

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

Isn't there a HHGTTG aside about sufficient ingenuity and wishful thinking?

Heat · « **Reply #20 on:** 07 September, 2018, 11:01:04 am »

That is the Maracusha !

Jaded · « **Reply #21 on:** 24 November, 2018, 12:32:08 am »

phantasmagoriana · « **Reply #22 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.

T42 · « **Reply #23 on:** 25 November, 2018, 08:08:49 am »

It's life, Jim, but not as we know it:

(fotabug's hibiscus, Kubrick's spaceship, NASA's star image and my thievery)

Jaded · « **Reply #24 on:** 25 November, 2018, 07:13:41 pm »

We thought hibiscus, but are mainly crap at flowers!