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Removing 'kudzu' type passionflower

20 years ago

I planted a native (white flowered) passionflower in my yard and the original vine looks like a small sapling at the base!

It is coming up all over my yard and when I pulled it up I discovered some really large runners. Pulled hard on one and found out it was running underneath some of my mums so ended up damaging them. Help! Barb

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aka_peggy
20 years ago
They should tag those plants with a warning! Lol! Barb, I did the same thing...unwittingly planted passiflora incarnata...not realizing it would take over the world! I planted it in my perennial bed. It took 2 years of yanking to finally eliminate it.

The only thing you can do, that I know of, is to keep pulling it where you see it. I don't think that even a heavy mulch will stop it.

Below is a thread from the passiflora forum. Maybe someone there can give you better advice.

Best of luck!

Here is a link that might be useful: Passion vine taking over
barb_tx
Original Author
20 years ago
Need to say my passionflower is white but it has blue pistils. Looked it up on www.floridata.com and confirmed it is P. caerulea.

Thank you for the link Peggy.

Barb
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