Passiflora ‘Byron Beauty’

P. incarnata x P. edulis
Robert Knight USA 1979.
Min 0°C 32°F

It is a good test of any hybrid that it is still around over 40 years after it was created. A lovely free-flowering plant. Note the striking prominent dark petiole glands and egg mimicry on the underside of the flowers.

Dr Roland Fisher comments,

Passiflora ‘Byron Beauty’ was selected from a large group of plants developed by Dr. Knight (USDA). In summer 1979, a clone of P. incarnata collected by H.F. Winters in Maryland was crossed with three introductions of P. edulis: P. 424813, a purple-fruited form collected wild in Brazil, P. edulis f. flavicarpa and an intraspecific hybrid derived from crossing a purple fruited strain from Australia (‘Norfolk Island’) with a clone of P. edulis f. flavicarpa (P. 243804) brought to Florida from Trinidad. Resulting offspring was tetraploidized and intercrossed.