Guild Wars 2

I noticed today (yeah I’m a bit slow) that blooming passiflora nodes appeared to me as I was doing my first daily sweep of SC; whereas when I logged onto an alt to do my second sweep, the blooming nodes were absent although all other nodes (orichalcum, mithril, regular passiflora) were in the same locations and gatherable.

Is this a deliberate move by ANet to limit the number of blossoms in the game? Or is it a bug that needs fixing?

Yep , I’ve noticed that too. However it seems this limitation is shorter than one day as I’ve been able to gather again within a few hours interval.

Yep. You are limited to 3 Blooming Passiflora nodes per account per day. Contrary to what Minos says above, however, my experience with them is that they seem to reset after 24 hours similar to node farms, and not during the Daily reset. He might have harvested them again after a server reset.