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Passiflora 'Purple Tiger' – A tropical looking vine with winged stems and large rounded waxy leaves and very large sweetly-scented flowers that appear over a long period from late spring to fall. These flowers have dark red petals with fleshy banded purple and white corona filaments that are wavy toward the tips and can be followed by 6-8 inch long, 3-5-inch-wide large yellow fruit if conditions are right and cross pollinations has occurred.
Plant in full sun to light shade in a warm garden and give regular irrigation. Hardy to around 30 °F. This plant blooms more than 'Ruby Glow' and like it should also be planted in near frost-free gardens.
Passiflora 'Purple Tiger' is a hybrid, created by Patrick Worley and Richard McCain in the mid 1996 and was the result of crossing Passiflora phoenicea 'Ruby Glow' with P. quadrangularis, a cross sometimes listed as P. × decaisneana. This plant is similar to P. phoenicea. 'Ruby Glow', which we grew from 1988 until 2013 but replaced it with this cultivar in 2013 because it has larger flowers that appear for a longer period.
The information displayed on this page about Passiflora 'Purple Tiger' is based on the research we have conducted about it in our nursery library as well as from information provided by reliable online resources. We also include our own observations made about this plant as it grows in the nursery gardens and other gardens visited, as well how the crops of this plant have performed in the containers in our nursery field. We will also incorporate comments that we have received from others and welcome hearing from anyone with information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information that will aid others to better grow it.
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