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Brendan Cook
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I grow passion flowers, sugarcane, and cassava in Tampa Bay.
This makes the assumption that the Lib Dems are 'left'. They would definitely claim to be, but when it comes down to it, they will always side with the Tories. I suppose that still says something about their voters, though.
November 4, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Interesting that green fruits are slightly more common, although they also don't have much contrast. The green passiflora fruit I know, incarnate, cincinnata, malformis, platyloba, are all trying to attract mammals.
October 10, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Having lived and taught in Tampa for twelve years, 'Central Florida' does NOT feel like part of 'the South'. We may not lie on the Caribbean, but so many of my neighbors and students have roots in Haiti, Cuba, or Puerto Rico. And there are as many former New Yorkers here as Georgians.
October 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I agree, but this is still an awfully long-winded way of saying "I don't know who needs to hear this, but..."
September 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
1940, apparently. Some time in June.
September 3, 2025 at 11:43 AM
I'm pretty sure at this point. It was amazing to think that two relatively similar species (both carpenter bees rather than bats or butterflies or hummingbirds) would behave so differently. But then the flowers themselves are part of a single genus, and yet they're not all built the same.
August 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Any thoughts on pollination by carpenter bees? The different species seem to behave very differently. The bees here in Florida don't know what to do when a flower hangs down, as with P. maliformis, but I have read that in their native ranges, these plants are routinely pollinated by carpenter bees.
August 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
And isn't P. incarnata different anyway? The test in your other post shows that pretty well. I wonder if these beetles would encounter more problems with other Passiflora.
August 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
This one is fine. Perfectly good Latin.
August 21, 2025 at 10:21 PM