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The family and genus of passionflower

Passionflower is a perennial evergreen climbing woody vine, belonging to the family Passifloraceae and the genus Passiflora.

Other names for passionflower

Passionflower is also called maypop, Brazilian fruit, vine peach, passion fruit, zhuanxinlian, xi yang ju, zhuan zhi lian, yang suan qie hua, and shi ji cao.

The origin of passionflower

It is cultivated in Guangxi, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan and other places in China, and sometimes grows wild. It is native to South America. It is commonly cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions.

The morphological characteristics of passionflower

The stem of passionflower is cylindrical and slightly angular, hairless; the leaves are papery, heart-shaped at the base, palmately 5-parted deeply, with the middle lobe ovate-oblong and the lateral lobes slightly smaller, hairless and entire.

The cyme is reduced to only 1 flower, opposite 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; the seeds are numerous, obcordate, about 5 mm long.