I'm obsessed with this beautiful flowering vine that grows along roadsides in south MS and LA. Some people call it a maypop while others say its a jasmine. Please help me identify it. Thank you.
Hi I could not really tell100% from the photos but In your area Passiflora incarnata is called maypop, it is sometimes confused with jasmine as the sent in quite close.
Now, I've only been to the South once, but I do know what Passiflora incarnata (maypop), Gelsemium sempervirens (Carolina jasmine) and various true Jasminum spp. (jasmines) look like, and your photographs appear to be of none of them. It looks to me like a single white rambler rose. See this link to an image of maypop from the University of South Carolina, and this link to the same site for Carolina jasmine. See this link to a (German) commercial site showing images of various Jasminum species.
Your Vine appears to be a Cherokee Rose. This is the name assigned to this plant that I last saw while visiting Bellingrath Gardens in the Mobile, AL area.
"Cherokee Rose" of 1700's Yonge's Island, S.C. My grandfather was Edw. Yonge Wootten, late of Wilmington, N.C., and distant kin of the 1700's Yonges of "Toogooloo" (Cherokee for "in the forks of the river") Plantation, Yonge's Island, South Carolina. "Toogooloo" once had a three-miles long entrance of the (Chinese orgins?) "Cherokee Rose" (not a true rose?); which I think is the state flower of Georgia. Our old, complicated Yonge coat-of-arms, had the motto: "Non Sine Spinis" (not without thorns). Does anyone know a good commercial source for the Cherokee Rose? I'd like to try some here in Southport, North Carolina. My 1760's, Mobile, Alabama area ancestor, was Adam Hollinger, of Hollinger's Island; near contemptary Mobile. I descend his Kaskasia Illini quarter-breed wife; Mdm. Marie Josephine de Juzan Hollinger.
Re: "Cherokee Rose" of 1700's Yonge's Island, S.C. Gilmer, Texas has a Cherokee Rose Festival each year. There are many growing on fence rows in the area. And, BTW, I am a decendent of Thomas Wooton, the first doctor to come to America, who came here on Captain John Smith's ship. My mother's maiden name is Wootten.
I believe the long late Gen. Preston Wooten of Kinston, N.C., joined the Jamestown Society on Dr. Wooten? Though Dr. Thomas Wooten seems to be the first physician; he seems to have left no descendants, and thus that lineage is now considered in error; untill proven otherwise? My great grandfather was Shadrack "Shade" Wooten of near Grifton, N.C. There were also Shad, and Shadrack Wooten in the same county; all kin. My great grandfather was a cotton farmer, untill the advent of the bole weavil there. When wheat was hand-harvested; I understand that Cabarrus and Rowan Cos., N.C., were considered the "bread basket of America" then? Wonder what English crops were brought to early Jamestown, Va.? My ancesror Edmund Bellinger, Sr., Landgrave, of Ashepoo Barony, S.C., allegedly brought the first cattle to South Carolina. Ancestor Charles Rochon, Sr., in 1714; allegedly had 1,000 cattle on Hollinger's Island, off Mobile, Alabama. My Hon. Henry Yonge, Sr., Loyalist, H.M. Surveyor-General of Georgia; was one among many who alledgedly introduced the Mulberry Tree to America, to grow silk worms. Jim
It was thought at one time that he had no descendants, but see this website. I posted to it today, but it will take awhile to be approved. I also have a Word document, which my wife did recently, that I could email you if you want it. It traces my family back to him and beyond. According to World Family Tree Vol. 4, Ed. 1, Aug. 23, 1996, p. 4133, he married Sarah Jennings and had one child, Richard Wootton, Sr.
