"Stewart Robert Hinsley" wrote ...
after Bob Hobden writes
"lannerman" wrote ...

Hi,Folks, does anybody have any idea what colour is the Passion Flower
variety called 'Sabine'

I think you may be confused, Sabine isn't a variety.
His name is at the end of some botanical names because he was a
botanist......
e.g.
Passiflora caeruleo-racemosa Sabine


Sabine appears to have been a horticulturalist. He isn't responsible for
many botanical names, and they were published either in the Transactions
of the Horticultural Society, or by other authors.

IPNI doesn't have Passiflora caeruleo-racemosa Sabine, but their coverage
of horticultural hybrids (this would be P. caerulea x P. racemosa) is
incomplete. Since they omit this I can't safely assume that the lack of
records for other names in Passiflora due to Sabine means that this was
the only name in Passiflora that he introduced, but I think it likely that
this is the case.

This being the case, the plants under discussion should be P.
caeruleo-racemosa.

[Some time ago there were plants in circulation as Papaver Tatewok. They
turned out to be Papaver miyabeanum Tatew.(aki). This looks like a similar
case - the authority having been mistaken for a cultivar name, and the
epithet elided.]

Passiflora caeruleo-racemosa has red flowers. (Looking at a photograph I'd
narrow that down to deep crimson-pink.) But I can't be sure that they
aren't cultivars with other colours. (RHS Plant Finder has no entries
under Passiflora caeruleo-racemosa or Passiflora caeruleoracemosa, so it
doesn't help here.)

See the Wiki article on Joseph Sabine...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Sabine

and some more on the subject...
http://www.biologiezentrum.at/pdf_fr..._0753-0774.pdf

http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annua...cord_id=735428


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Regards
Bob Hobden
just W. of London