Purple Passion Vine

Gynura aurantiaca Cv. 'Purple Passion'
Purple Passion Vine
Asteraceae
Gynura aurantiaca Cv. 'Purple Passion' is a perennial vine with velvety-purple-hairy stems and leaves. They will reach up to 9 feet in containers.

This popular plant may be labeled by any of these common names: Purple Passion Plant, Purple Passion Vine or Velvet Plant. Some have an upright growing habit, others are vining.

Love these Purple Passion Vines! Have grown mine in regular potting soil, keep it moist in summer (less so in winter), and feed with weak solution of folage plant food. Pinch tips of new growth off to get plant to grow bushy - then let it vine.

Purple Passion Vine [English]: Gynura aurantiaca
Purple Passion Vine [English]: Gynura sarmentosa
Purple Passion Vine [English]: Gynura sarmentosa 'Variegata'
Purple Passion-Flower [English]: Passiflora incarnata ...

Purple Passion Vine will show oil its rich colouring when rut- by a sunny window.
Staghorn Fern will create a leature hung in a corner with some light shade. Bridal Veil has mass of tiny white flowers that appear at intervals throughout the year.

See also: Joe-Pye Weed, Trachelospermum, Flag, Lady Fern, Primrose