# Please name this flower **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 14, 2004, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-name-this-flower/250208 "2004-06-14T00:41:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![robcaro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@robcaro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robcaro)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-name-this-flower/250208/1 "2004-06-14T00:41:07Z")
My friend sent me a photo of the flower shown at this link: [http://www.boomspeed.com/robcaro/BobsFlower.gif](http://www.boomspeed.com/robcaro/BobsFlower.gif) Does anyone know the name of it? I googled through flowers of many types but couldn’t locate this one. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-name-this-flower/250208/2 "2004-06-14T00:53:38Z")
It’s a [passionflower](http://altnature.com/gallery/passionflower.htm). ---
**Author:** ![robcaro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@robcaro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robcaro)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-name-this-flower/250208/3 "2004-06-14T00:54:25Z")
It seems that this flower is growing on a vine in his back yard. He doesn’t know what the vine variety is. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-name-this-flower/250208/4 "2004-06-14T00:55:04Z")
It is a passionflower; _Passiflora Cincinnata_ if I’m not mistaken. ---
**Author:** ![robcaro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@robcaro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robcaro)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-name-this-flower/250208/5 "2004-06-14T00:57:14Z")
Thank you Colophon. That seems to fill the bill. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-name-this-flower/250208/6 "2004-06-14T01:01:53Z")
Yes… I may have been hasty with the link to the particular species. There are lots of cultivated hybrid varieties of _Passiflora_. The white anthers (in the centre) don’t seem to be true to the native _P. cincinnata_ according to [this pic](http://www.gkexoticplants.com/P._cincinnata.jpg), so you may well have a hybrid there. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-name-this-flower/250208/7 "2004-06-14T01:03:59Z")
Sorry to post again, but a word of warning - the first site I linked to says the flowers are edible. That is **not** true of all passionflower species, so don’t eat the things unless you are 100% sure which variety it is! ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-name-this-flower/250208/8 "2004-06-14T03:58:59Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > Sorry to post again, but a word of warning - the first site I linked to says the flowers are edible. That is **not** true of all passionflower species, so don’t eat the things unless you are 100% sure which variety it is! In fact, many species of Passiflora produce cyanide in all their tissues, so in general eating them is definitely not recommended. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-name-this-flower/250208/9 "2004-06-14T07:48:41Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > The white anthers (in the centre) don’t seem to be true to the native _P. cincinnata_ according to [this pic](http://www.gkexoticplants.com/P._cincinnata.jpg), so you may well have a hybrid there. Most of the examples of _Cincinnata_ pictured in a [Google Image Search](http://images.google.com/images?q=passiflora%20cincinnata&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi) are quite a close match, having white anthers. The one in your link appears to be a cultivar called _[‘Dark Pollen’](http://www.kwekerijgommer.com/fotos/passiflora/Cincinnata%20Dark%20Pollen.htm)_. Another possibility is a Cincinnata/Incarnata hybrid called _[Incense](http://home.swipnet.se/Holst-Lindberg/incense.htm)_.