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Passiflora platyloba

Passiflora platyloba
Photo: Christina S. Baer, CC BY 4.0

Passiflora platyloba is a climbing passion flower with purple blooms, native to wet tropical forests from southeast Mexico through Central America to Colombia. It is grown mainly as a warm-climate ornamental vine and needs steady moisture and warmth to flourish.

Family
Passifloraceae (Passion-flower family)
Grows as
Climber
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist during the growing season and let the top layer dry slightly between waterings.
Soil
Rich, well-draining loam or potting mix with added organic matter.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SE. Mexico to Colombia
Climate
wet tropical

About

Passiflora platyloba is a species of flowering plant in the family Passifloraceae. It is a climbing plant with purple flowers. The species is native to Mexico central America, and Colombia, and was described in 1922.

Where it grows

Passiflora platyloba is native to the wet tropical biome of Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, south-east Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panamá.

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 platyloba 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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