What is Mapop?
Maypop is a native climbing vine in the Eastern United States. In the autumn it bears fruit called Mapops. Flowers have narrow, purple petals similar to the white center. The scientific name is passiflora incarnata and ordinary names include, wild mount, purple vines and apricot of the vine.
Purple Passion winds up 25 feet (about 7.5 m) and is a fast -growing and energetic climber. This plant is suitable for climbing the grilles, covered over the gazebo or a scale of a wall or fence. Maypop vines is also grown as an end land around the landscape trees or in slightly shaded shrub beds.
purple or lavender flowers bloom in summer and are particularly attractive to butterflies and other pollinators. At the end of summer it behaves green, eggs in the shape of an egg called Mapops. In autumn, the fruit turns from green to gold or yellow when it ripens.
The fruit grows to a diameter of about 2 inches (5 cm) and the redness and tall in niacin. Niacin, also called vitamin B3, is an important vitaAcine found in some sheeps and vegetables. Maypop fruit is suitable for making jams, jelly and canning or for eating fresh vine soon after harvest.
Maypop vines thrive on full sun or light shadow and sandy, well drained or clay soil. The plant thrives in an area that acquires consistent light moisture, but is also able to tolerate a period of slight drought. It grows all year round and develops a woody look in the climate without frost. In colder areas, the plant dies to the ground and grows again as a herb perennial every year.
In frost areas where wine vines die in winter, dead plant materials are limited to the ground. A thick layer of mulch spread over the roots provides added protection during cold weather. In areas that only receive a slight frost, the Mapop vines can survive all year round when off with a wall that provides protection and gets full winter sunE.
The plant is promoted from seeds or from herbal trunks. The seeds are collected from ripe fruit in autumn and cleaned, dried and stored until spring. The seeds are easy to germinate when planted directly into the soil or started in pots inside. The herbal slices of the trunks are taken from the first growth that occurs at the beginning of the growing season.