bajajudy
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Ecomujeres.....que es esta planta?
I found this plant near the beach growing in the sand. The flower looks like a mini passion flower.
Any ideas what it is?
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Passiflora arida is my best guess....
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I agree tron. The leaves look so different from the passion fruit vine that we have which, I guess, is Passiflora edulis.
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A member of the pesoflores family.
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Quote: | Originally posted by Skipjack Joe
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At least a peso works; gringo money is too shiny
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Mexitron is probably right, but
P. Palmeri is also found from Bay of LA down to the Cape. It is the largest of the Passiflora found in Baja with flowers 5 - 7 cm wide. Its leaves
are viscous, glutinous. P. arida has flowers 2.5 - 3.5 cm wide and the plant is not viscous. Touching one of the viscous ones (related to P.
foetida) feels oily.
Be nice to see a better close-up photo. I used to have a collection of the endemic Baja Passiflora, but freezes took them out. Need to start
collecting them again. Little fruits are somewhat edible (but not like P. edulis-not native).
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Jack
Yes sorry about the quality of the photo. By the time I got it onto my computer and realized how fuzzy it was, the flower had closed. It really is
the size of a one peso coin. Maybe another will open and I can get a better shot.
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Quote: | Originally posted by Skipjack Joe
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that was pretty funny!!!! i just had a crappy day and that helped make it better.
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Passiflora arida flower is just gorgeous!
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I saw this passion fruit flower out on Guardian Angel Island in March, complete with the neat spider.
Probably "Pesoflores... make that Passiflora palmeri" but might be an
island subspecies or endemic?
Sure was pretty and covered in fruit.
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