A Few Passion Flowers

Passion flowers are always fun to photograph. They all have common elements – alternating petals and sepals (all about the same size), the corona with radiating filaments, and the raised stigma, styles and antlers. Microsopy-UK has a wonderful page describing the parts of the passion flowers in detail -and shows them under a microscope. But even with all these common elements – each variety of passion flower looks different from the others.

Here are a few of the passion flowers I’ve photographed

An Incense Passion Flower (passiflora incense)

Incense Passion Flower © 2012 Patty Hankins

A Blue Passion Flower (passiflora caerula)

Blue Passion Flower © 2012 Patty Hankins

And an Amethyst Passion Flower

Amethyst Passion Flower © 2013 Patty Hankins

I have a few more passion flower photos that I haven’t shared yet. I”ll try to post them in the next week or so.