Perhaps the first genuine Passiflora antioquiensis flower to open in UK since Victorian times. See Victorian P. antioquiensis print. Henk Wouters (Holland) has also flowered a number of clones from USA & Colombian sources. 16cm flower with a 23 cm peduncle.

A stunning flower which, like a number of other Tacsonia such as P. tarminiana & P. x exoniensis, will stay open for two to four days. This is probably because the flowers are primarily hummingbird pollinated so the plants have to invest more energy in each flower's structure. Also there will be less pollinator visits per day compared with the shorter opening bee pollinated flowers.

Note that P. x exoniensis, a beautiful P. antioquiensis hybrid with P. tripartita var. mollissima or P. tarminiana is often mislabelled as P. antioquiensis, principally because of a misidentification in the first edition of John Vanderplank's book. P. x exoniensis has peduncles up to a foot (30cm) long and also is a much brighter pink inside the flower. The real thing, as above, can always be identified however by its unique peduncles, which hang down up to 2 feet (61cm) or more & the bright white centre to the flower.