Passiflora
caerulea 'Constance Elliot' ~ White Passion Vine
Where the weather gets a little rough and you MUST have
an exotic bloom Passiflora caerulea varieties are about the hardiest
around. Constance Elliot is more than reliable in our area. Here is your
ticket to the tropics. The fruit on Passiflora Constance Elliot is
edible and orange. I eat the pulp off the seeds. Maybe best of all the
Gulf Frittilary butterflies come by in droves. In some yards
the butterflies
have eaten all of the foliage. My vine has always grown just a little faster than
they can eat. If you want to have a Butterfly Garden, the butterflies
make this Passion Vine worth its space all
by themselves. Passion vines have interesting methods
of spreading pollen. And intriguing egg
mimic appendages to fool butterflies that wish to deposit their eggs.
This is an excellent plant to host gulf
fritillary caterpillars on in your butterfly
garden.
