Name: Passiflora 'Blue Eyed Susan'
SKU: blue eyed susan
Price: 17.99 USD
Availability: InStock

Passiflora ‘Blue Eyed Susan’

Huge, deep purple flowers topped with dozens of long wavy filaments. Free flowering, vigorous, evergreen vine with attractive glossy foliage.

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Description

Passiflora ‘Blue Eyed Susan’ displays huge, fragrant, deep purple flowers topped with dozens of long wavy filaments that almost completely obscure the petals. Easy to grow, vigorous vine produces flowers all year long. This vine has coarse textured, attractive semi-glossy foliage. While it can be a large vine, it is not overly aggressive, and it performs well grown in containers. It also responds well to pruning. Following the blossoms medium sized speckled fruit may appear. The fruit is edible and is similar to maypop fruit (Passiflora incarnata).

Blue Eyed Susan makes an excellent replacement for Passiflora Incense if you are not growing Incense exclusively for its cold hardiness. This vine produces similar, but much larger, fancier, more intensely colored blooms year round.

Plant in full sun as this vine likes heat and sun.

For each item added to your cart, you will receive 1 starter plant in a 2.5” pot. A photo example of the starter plants we ship can be found on our Ordering and Shipping FAQ page. The plants are well rooted and are ready to be potted into a larger container.

For those interested, Passiflora ‘Blue Eyed Susan’ is a tetraploid hybrid cross of (P. incarnata x P. edulis) x (P. incarnata x P. cincinnata) Roland Fischer and Carolee Anita Boyles’s hybrid.

Hardiness Zone: 10

What does hardiness zone 10 mean?

It means that this Passiflora is not cold tolerant and requires protection from freezing temperatures. If you are growing it outdoors, bring it inside once it starts to freeze. This variety will tolerate temperatures down to about freezing, but prolonged cold temperatures will kill it.