What are the other names for passion fruit? An article to help you understand
The family and genus of passion fruit
Passion fruit is a perennial evergreen climbing woody vine, belonging to the family Passifloraceae and the genus Passiflora.
Other names for passion fruit
Passion fruit is also called maypop, Brazilian fruit, vine peach, passion fruit, changing-heart lotus, western bindweed, rotating-branch lotus, foreign sour eggplant flower, and clock grass.
The origin of passion fruit
Cultivated in Guangxi, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan and other places in China, sometimes naturalized. Native to South America. Commonly cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions.
Morphological characteristics of passion fruit
The stem of passion fruit is cylindrical with slightly angular edges, hairless; the leaves are papery, heart-shaped at the base, palmately 5-parted deeply, the middle lobe ovate-oblong, the lateral lobes slightly smaller, hairless, and entire.
The cyme is reduced to only 1 flower, opposite to the tendril; the flower is large, pale green, and the flowering period is from May to July.
The berry is ovate-globose to nearly globose, orange-yellow or yellow when ripe; seeds numerous, obcordate, about 5 mm long.