Passion fruit

Passiflora edulis

  • Passion fruit
  • Passion fruit
  • Passion fruit
  • Passion fruit
  • Passion fruit
  • Passion fruit
  • Passion fruit
  • Passion fruit
  • Passion fruit
  • Passion fruit
  • Passion fruit
  • Passion fruit
  • Flower name
    Passion fruit
  • Scientific name
    Passiflora edulis
  • Aliasパッション・フルーツ, Passiflora edulis, クダモノトケイソウ, 果物時計草, Passion fruit
  • Place of originBrazil, garden variety
  • Place of floweringGarden, Orchard, Botanical Gardens
  • Flowering seasonMay, June, July

What is Passion fruit

Passion fruit , scientific name:passiflra edulis , is native to Brazil and is a vines and shrubs, fruit trees of the Department of Passifloraceae , of the Passiflora. With five white petals and white sepals 5, five stamens, pistil single stigmas are three-lobed, base purple thread-like racemes Crown is large number has meaning of the passion flower in the West because it reminds us of Christ crucified array,. From Japan, petals clock face, male and female SIVE clock that resembles known as Passionflower (Passiflora). It is cultivated for its flowers take the fruit edible Passiflora. Fruit is spherical or egg-shaped, covered with green or dark green tough skin. During the time of the around with yellow-green jelly-like flesh. This sweet and sour fruits are edible, processed products of raw food or juice and jam.
Passiflora on the other hand, enjoy the flowers, ostentatious colors of blue and white Passiflora caerulea (also referred to as Passiflora caerulea and Passiflora seller).

Generic name: passion fruit , scientific name:Passiflora edulis, also known as: Passion fruit, Kudamono tokeisou(Japanese), Origin: Brazil, living shrubs vines and fruit trees, height: 50-300 cm, vine length: 600 cm-, in the axil of the leaf: palmately Trifoliate monoplane, leaf arrangement: alternate, leaf width: 12 cm, color: white, flower diameter:5-7.5cm, flowers blooming location:, new vine solitary, flowering period: May-July, flowering time: 1 day flowers, Fruit diameter: 5 cm, fruit shape: spherical or egg-shaped, harvesting season: July-September


  • Order
    Malpighiales
  • Family
    Passifloraceae
  • Genus
    Passiflora
  • Species
    P. edulis
  • Type of flower
    Radial symmetrical flower
  • Array of flower
    Monopetal inflorescence
  • Petal shape
    Multi-petaled
  • Leaf type
    Palm shape
  • Edge of the leaf
    Entire
  • Life typeVines and shrubs, fruit trees
  • Flower colorsWhite
  • Colors of the leavesGreen
  • Fruit colorPurple Yellow
  • Height50.0 ~ 300.0 cm
  • Diameter of flower5.0 ~ 7.5 cm

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