Purple Passionflower #2
by Paul Rebmann
Title
Purple Passionflower #2
Artist
Paul Rebmann
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
A close-up front view of the Passiflora incarnata flower - purple passionflower - photographed in May.
This image has been featured in the following groups:
Floral Photography and Art,
Flower Mania
& Wild Flowers
This distinctive wildflower is also known as Maypop, one of the more common native species in this family. A favorite larval food of the Gulf fritillary, Julia and zebra butterflies, exotic and cultivated hybrid species of passionflowers can also be found in Florida.
Vines can be sprawling or climbing, utilizing tendrils to cling to supports. Leaves are alternate, three-lobed and finely toothed. The showiy flowers have a blue-purple fringed corolla. There are five each similar-looking petals and sepals, with the petals having a bluish or lavender tint and the sepals being pale, sort of off-white. The sexual parts of a passionflower are distinctive and rise above the center of the corolla then spread and bend back down, scraping the top of visiting pollinators.
(Species description from the artist's Wild Florida Photo website www.wildflphoto.com)
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December 11th, 2015
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