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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 about Passiflora 'Purple Tiger' that is displayed on this web page is based on research conducted in our nursery's horticultural library and from reliable online resources. We will also include observations made about this plant as it grows in our nursery gardens and other gardens that we have visited, as well how the crops have performed in containers in our nursery field. We also incorporate comments that we receive from others and welcome hearing from anyone with additional information, particularly if they share cultural information that aids others growing this plant.
Please note that after 46 years in business, San Marcos Growers will be discontinuing nursery operations by the end of 2025 and the property will be developed for affordable housing.
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