Sacha wrote:
Did you get an email from me a couple of days ago about that 'lost'
Passiflora caponi John Innes?

I'm getting very bad at picking up my e-mails nowadays (about 600
sitting there at the last count), but I'll go and look. As for the
Passiflora, all I can say is 'told ya' so!'. When I saw it I was
certain it was John Innes hybrid and none of the reasoning by Leslie
King has made me change my mind. 'John Innes' was growing at Ness
botanical gardens in the early '70s, which is where I saw it
originally and although the memory can get a bit sketchy at times,
your plant brought it all back. King accepts that it matches the
published description reasonably well, but then goes on to suggest
your plant seems closer to P. x belottii. I grew P. x belottii on my
nursery and disagree. There's nothing like real hands-on growing for
getting to know a plant properly.

Ah well, 10 years to confirm what we already knew!