Passiflora x ‘Amethyst’ JC Raulston Arboretum The plant builds a rounded

The plant builds a rounded

The epithet suavis means sweet or agreeable in Latin

fruit-scented flowers are worked chiefly by beetles rather than bees

and Tom Dodd III of Semmes

Passiflora x ‘Amethyst’ JC Raulston Arboretum The plant builds a roundedPassiflora 'Amethyst' is one of the most rewarding of the ornamental passionflowers, a vigorous hybrid grown for large, jewel toned blooms of glowing red purple. Each flower opens nearly flat, three to four inches across, the petals and sepals reflexing back to set off a short, banded corona and a lifted central column of stamens and styles. The parentage is somewhat uncertain, as with many old garden passionflowers, but the effect is unmistakable: an