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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.
This information about Passiflora 'Purple Tiger' displayed is based on research conducted in our horticultural library and from reliable online resources. We also will relate observations made about it as it grows in our nursery gardens and other gardens we have visited, as well how the crops have performed in containers in our nursery field. We will also incorporate comments that we receive from others and we welcome hearing from anyone with additional information, particularly if they can share any cultural information that would aid others in growing it.
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