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Mar 12, 2014 9:27 AM CST
Name: Jonna
Mérida, Yucatán, México (Zone 13a)
The WITWIT Badge Region: Mexico Garden Procrastinator I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Ponds Tropicals
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Oh that's a beauty! Do the butterfly worms eat it to death later? That's my annoyance with passiflora, I hate it when they eat all the leaves and buds and it looks horrible. I only have the one that makes fruit, the fruit gets almost yellow when ripe. I do like the fruit a lot so I haven't ripped it out but I chase the damn butterflies away when I can with the hose. It's pointless but it makes me feel better. Mine is in a pot on my roof and has never gotten very large, my friend has one that has almost eaten her pool house. She actually fell off the roof a couple years ago trying to hack it back, now she just lets it go or hires someone to go up there. However, she gets lots of fruit but again, it is so high up there that mostly the possums and birds get the fruit.
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

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