A beautiful miniature Passion Flower vine started growing under one of our palm trees
I was doing some weeding the other day and came across the most beautiful miniature Passion Flower vine complete with tiny fruits the size of peas. The flowers were a pale yellow and smaller than a dime. I don’t really know what kind of Passiflora it is but it could be a Passiflora suberosa according to some of the books.
You can see how tiny the fruit is as I hold them on my fingers.
My fingers are quite small………my middle finger is 2 1/2 inches long so that gives you an idea of the size. This mini Passion Flower Vine was growing very happily under one of our Palm Trees.
Beautiful and tiny this wild passion flower bloom was just resting on some gravel.
Here's a couple of passion fruits hanging from the vine
When the fruits turn a dark purple-black colour, they are favoured by the birds
This pretty, small passionflower vine often creeps along the ground throughout the Turks and Caicos Islands. You really have to look closely for it !!
Marta
Hawaii has these too. Did you ever find out what they’re called? I’ve been pulling them up as weeds until one day I noticed a miniature lilikoi flower on them. One persons weed is another persons treasure.
ramona
I had a very similar experience as well, my Mom and I came across a tiny vine growing under and on a taller plant. If not for the tiny passion flower bloom we would have not noticed it or mistaken it for a weed. I’m in the Bahamas, the bloom is a little smaller, so is the flower. We also have a another wild variety that grows here, the flowers are about an inch and a half across, gorgeous.
I had a very similar experience as well, my Mom and I came across a tiny vine growing under and on a taller plant. If not for the tiny passion flower bloom we would have not noticed it or mistaken it for a weed. I’m in the Bahamas, the bloom is a little smaller, so is the seedpod. We also have a another wild variety that grows here, the flowers are about an inch and a half across, gorgeous.
Similar experience in miami florida. I was mowing it for years till I notice the tiny flowers.
have just found what I think is this vine growing outside, just wondering if anyone knows if the small dark berry/fruit is edible or not
I have found this miniature passion fruit vine also, I’m on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland Australia. The fruit are tiny pea size and soft. Are they edible? They are a soft fruit unlike the normal passion with a hard outer. Wasn’t game to eat..incase poison.
I got my Passiflora vine as a gift purchased on HSN. It is supposed to survive winter in Utah Zone 7a.
After it was about 6 ft long, I cut it and propagated 6 more identical vines. That being said, It is late October and the mother plant(outside) is dieing down to the ground for winter,( the roots are supposed to survive and grow again in Spring)
Thing is… All of my Passiflora ( 6 inside) are very tiny and each grow in a thin single vine.
Wondering if they will ever get larger or even produce fruit. Mine also have 5 leaf foliage similar to marijuana leaves. Anyway, it is a learning experience for me.
I had the same experience few days ago. My son noticed some black tiny fruits from a bush and he called it blueberry ((: And I tried it since it didn’t look poisonous. It tasted mild sweet and soft and it had lots of small seeds inside. Yesterday I saw its flowers for the first time. It just looked like mini passion fruit flower. Guess it’s edible ‘cos I’m still alive ((: