Purple Passion

Nine years ago I posted a photo of a flower from this plant:
“These were popular in dorm rooms when I was in college, so if you were drawn by the title, you may have given away your age … if just a little bit.

“I noticed one in the greenhouse some time ago, but not until the last week or so had I ever seen one ‘in flower.’ Its more common common-name is ‘Purple Velvet’; its scientific name is Gynura aurantiaca. According to Dave’s Garden, another scientific name by which it may go is Cacalia aurantiaca.”

Not to be confused with another plant variously known as “maypop,” “purple passionflower,” “true passionflower,” “wild apricot,” and “wild passion vine.”
» Wikipedia: [ Gynura aurantiaca ] [ Passiflora incarnata ]

Also note: There are hundreds of species in the Passiflora genus (“Passion flower”)!
» Passiflora at [ PhytoImages ] [ Brittanica ] [ Wikipedia ]

As I “will write” in eight months: “A problem with ‘common names’?”

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Looking back
  1 year ago: “Asian take-out”
 2 years ago: “On the merry-go-round with Papa [ETSOOI]”
 3 years ago: “I said this is a highly-anticipated part of every day!”
 4 years ago: “Amorphophallus titanum”
 5 years ago: “Lunch at Skeleton Point”
 6 years ago: “Breaking up the band (post #1900)”
 7 years ago: “Does *anyone* love their printer?”
 8 years ago: “’Twas a lovely day for a row”
 9 years ago: “A new resident in the dresser-top neighborhood”
10 years ago: “Angles and lines”
11 years ago: “Ash Wednesday”