Miniature Passion Flower?

[gixrj18]

I've grown Passion vines for a few years, a couple different colors. The other day, I found something on my jasmine hedge that gave me a pleasant surprise. I have passion vines growing all over the front porch....literally! The columns, the roof, everywhere! So needless to say there are plenty of this plant's pollinators around my house...lot's of butterflies. Anyway, I found this vine starting to cover my front hedge, with very similar leaves to a passion vine. Upon closer inspection, I found tiny little dime-sized passion flowers with green and yellow coloration, and little berries that stained my hands in purple, when I crushed them. I never knew there was a miniature version of this beautiful plant. Does anyone know anything about this vine? Is it a true Passion vine, or just a mimicking plant trying to attract the same pollinators? I mean, can it be a Passion vine if it doesn't produce Passion fruit?
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[PaphMadMan]

The flower is definitely a Passiflora, very distinctive. I'm not an expert, but I know there are at least a couple Florida native passionflower species with small greenish flowers. You've got one.

[gixrj18]

Originally Posted by PaphMadMan

The flower is definitely a Passiflora, very distinctive. I'm not an expert, but I know there are at least a couple Florida native passionflower species with small greenish flowers. You've got one.

So does that make the fruit edible? Thanks for the input.

[PaphMadMan]

I think all Passiflora have edible fruit but before making a meal of it you might want to check specifically on the native species in your area.

[ronaldhanko]

There is a green-flowered, small-flowered species I'm acquainted with called Passiflora coreacea. It's native to Mexico, Central and South America, and is similar, though not quite the same as this (at least it doens't look the same to me, but this is definitely a Passion Flower.

[johnblagg]

look inside the fruit for the distinct seperate seeds each in there own little sac of juice .....or does it only produce one seed per berry?

[kavanaru]

Originally Posted by PaphMadMan

I think all Passiflora have edible fruit but before making a meal of it you might want to check specifically on the native species in your area.

Actually, I would be careful eating passion fruits different than those commercially available... many species of passiflora accumulate cyanide in their fruits...

as per the plant shown here, almost confident it is Passiflora coriacea...

[gixrj18]

Originally Posted by johnblagg

look inside the fruit for the distinct seperate seeds each in there own little sac of juice .....or does it only produce one seed per berry?

Lots of seeds enclosed in their own little sacs. In fact, their isn't much fruit to it....mostly seeds. Unfortunately, I think most of the ones I have grown have been asexual colors (or so I've read), so I never have been able to get fruit to grow full term. So I don't have much experience with the fruit. Thanks also Ramon, but I won't be eating anything until I know for sure. Besides, the way the juice stains your hands, it doesn't look too appetizing....except maybe to a bird, which I imagine is how it probably got there in the first place. Here's some pics:
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[PaphMadMan]

Originally Posted by kavanaru

as per the plant shown here, almost confident it is Passiflora coriacea...

There are several Florida native Passiflora that you might want to consider before assuming it is an introduced exotic. Passiflora lutea, P. multiflora, P. biflora, P. suberosa, perhaps others.

[kavanaru]

interesting.. I did not know Passiflora lutea... it could be this one too... the others ( P. multiflora, P. biflora, P. suberosa) are different than the plant shown here