This is a Passion Flower, sometimes called MayPop. I’ve have four buds open so far in April and they don’t last much longer than a day. So in Tempe it is an AprilPop I guess. When I look at the complexity of the blossom– 5 anthers, 3 pistils, and the lacy tendrils of flower petals — it makes me realize how little science knows about how things make themselves, and how very little I know about what few things science knows. Just for one example, the coloring on the structure that supports the anthers looks like leopard spots. Something about those colors probably gives the flower an advantage over others in attracting the ideal insect. How does the flower’s DNA do that? and how does it even get access to and made use of the compounds that make one part ivory colored and the other rusty brown? Not only do I not know, I have a suspish that no one knows. Miracle! Every spring!