Passion Flower - Passiflora aurantia - Orange-petaled Passion Flower

The Orange-petaled passion flower is a species native to Autralia, and although the purple coloured fruits are not very tasty and pretty inedible, it is highly prized and valued for its profusely flowering nature, producing masses of salmon-orange flowers.

A low growing climber, it typically reach 1-2 metres tall, it is not hardy but can be grown as a beautiful Patio plant in the summer, or used as a houseplant, either all year round, or just the frosty months.

When the flowers open, they start off cream colored, then over a period of several days, the color darkens to a beautiful salmon pink and finally dark red. Supplied in approx 1-2 litre containers.