Name that plant
Details:
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Date Photo Taken
09 / 16 / 2015
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Season Photo Was Taken
Fall
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Region Photo Was Taken
Southeast
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City
Roswell
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State
Georgia
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Posted by
GB3558
Notes:
This vine is a volunteer. The leaf is similar to an ornamental potato vine but has small fruit between the size of a golf ball and a tennis ball. It also seems to have runners and pops up several feet away.
Comments
Jennifer Registered says:
Added bonus – the leaves are the sole food supply for the caterpillar of the American Gulf Fritilliary butterfly. In my garden, a vine can be covering a shrub one day and eaten almost to the ground the next. Gotta love it!
September 30th, 2015 at 4:50pm
parityanimal Master Identifier says:
When the skin on the fruit gets thin and wrinkly, and the fruit separates from the vine at at a touch (or very easily) you can suck the pulp off the seeds for a tasty treat. The vine, on the other hand, can be quite aggressive so you may have some trouble controlling its spread. The flowers are gorgeous through the summer and the bees love them.
September 18th, 2015 at 10:26am
Witchazel Master Identifier says:
Looks like a passion vine, or Passiflora incarnata. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passiflora_incarnata
September 18th, 2015 at 9:53am