VINE, PASSION FRUIT, Northern Maypop

Passiflora incarnata   Botanical Sample  (Packed for 2024) Seeds per packet ~ 30 Passiflora incarnata, commonly known as maypop, purple passionflower, true passionflower, wild apricot, and wild passion vine, is a fast-growing perennial vine with climbing or trailing stems. These seeds come from our collaborators at the Experimental Farm Network, who say this about them: "The maypop is the only passionfruit/passionflower native to the temperate US East Coast, from southern New Jersey to Florida in the East to Texas and Kansas in the West. It has also naturalized in other parts of the country and in Europe. Popular as an herbal sleep aid and anxiety treatment (usually in the form of a tea made from the leaves), maypops also produce a delicious fruit that ripens in the Fall and follows one of the most beautiful flowers on the planet. A perennial vine, it dies back to the ground each winter and grows back bigger each spring. It benefits from having a trellis or some other structure (like