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Author Topic: Any members from Reunion Island?  (Read 3087 times)

Anthony Darby

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Re: Any members from Reunion Island?
« Reply #15 on: December 28, 2009, 11:18:47 PM »
My friend's friend had it in hers and gave me a ripe fruit which has the most incredibly wonderful flavour. The flowers and fruit form on very long, thin threads and hang like lanterns.


Not for nothing is P. antioquiensis called the red banana passion flower.
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rob krejzl

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Re: Any members from Reunion Island?
« Reply #16 on: December 28, 2009, 11:52:05 PM »
Lesley,

Don't want to contradict, but your picture is apparently of P. miniata (P. coccinea hort.) not true P. coccinea. True coccinea has three rows of corona filaments, the outer ones white. With miniata there are apparently only two rows, the outer one purple.
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Re: Any members from Reunion Island?
« Reply #17 on: December 29, 2009, 11:29:49 AM »
My pleasure Maggi :)
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Re: Any members from Reunion Island?
« Reply #18 on: December 29, 2009, 07:04:58 PM »
By jove! If this page is anything to go by, the discussion from another thread on the mailing of seed packages will have extraordinary relevance!
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http://www.barbadine.com/pages/english_biblio.htm      :o


on the other hand, i don't think you will be fitting this in any envelope--it will need a box, so should be in no danger of crushing! the cost of mailing, however, is unlikely to be modest...

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Re: Any members from Reunion Island?
« Reply #19 on: December 29, 2009, 08:00:28 PM »
Rob, I'm happy with your assessment of my picture. My north-of-Auckland friend will have grown it probably from a Tauranga nursery, as coccinea and may or may not have had the Hort afixed to it. He's no botanist, though a careful amateur one I think. No matter. Either way, it's a gorgeous plant, to about 5 metres high for him because it can't get higher, and then round and round the plastic house. I thought glass, but the picture itself reminded me it is plastic. He has other tropical and subtropical passifloras in the pine trees outside, growing to 15 meters at least. The P. antioquiensis is also outside, among prunus and other deciduous trees. His garden is 20 acres and is, in a way, just a completely mixed up circus. He has Iris cristata and Pulsatilla growing under a banana! I couldn't live in it but it's a fabulous place to visit for a few days.
« Last Edit: December 29, 2009, 08:08:29 PM by Lesley Cox »
Lesley Cox - near Dunedin, lower east coast, South Island of New Zealand - Zone 9

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Re: Any members from Reunion Island?
« Reply #20 on: December 29, 2009, 08:01:38 PM »
I'll have to follow those links, Mark.... at the very least, who knew there WAS a Seaslug Forum???!!! :o



I was actually looking at it only a few days ago. I think I followed a link on another site!
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