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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