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Red Passionflower

Passiflora cinnabarina

Also called Crimson Passionflower

Red Passionflower
Photo: Geoff Derrin, CC BY-SA 4.0

Red passionflower is a climbing vine from south-eastern Australia that bears striking red flowers from September to January. It grows best in moist soil with good light, and it is a species rather than a genus.

Family
Passifloraceae (Passion-flower family)
Grows as
Climber
Light
Full sun
Water
Keep soil moist, especially during growth and flowering.
Soil
Moist, well-drained soil, rich in organic matter.
Temperature
Tolerates mild frost; protect from hard frosts below -5 °C.
How easy
Easy
Native range
SE. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Passiflora cinnabarina, commonly known as red passionflower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Passifloraceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a climber or scrambler with three-lobed leaves and red flowers.

How to grow it

This climber can be propagated from seed or from cuttings and can be grown in full sun to semi shade. It is relatively frost-tolerant but requires moist soil.

Where it grows

Red passionflower grows along rivers in rainforest and forest, often in rocky sites and occurs from northern New South Wales, along the coast and ranges through the Australian Capital Territory to eastern Victoria. It has also become naturalised in a few sites in Tasmania.

Other Passiflora plants

Sea anemone passion flower · Bracted passionflower · Passionflower · Passiflora ambigua · Passiflora amoena · Passiflora ampullacea · Passion flower · Passion flower · Passionflower · Passiflora arbelaezii · Passiflora arborea · Arizona Passion Vine

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Passiflora cinnabarina by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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