I woke up this morning for work, gazed out from the second story to see if any of my plants were in bloom. Particularly, I had noticed that there were shades of pink within the Passiflora palmeri bud the evening prior. From my vantage I could tell that the sepals were separating, but the flower wasn't in bloom yet. Throughout my morning I checked on its status, and little by little it peeled away it's layers until by the time I was ready to hop in the car, it was fully opened.
I took some pictures, enjoyed its rich pink petals and neat crown of purple speckled filaments, and then dabbed on some P. foetida pollen. We will wait and see if it's that easy.
Update: And now I've come to find that this species is no longer classified as P. palmeri. It's now P. sublanceolata, which doesn't make a good pun in the slightest.
Update 2: I have a nice lime sized fruit maturing! Unless it's "selfed", it should be P. palmeri var sublanceolata x P. foetida 'urbaniana'
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