Passion Fruit Flower Facts
However it is also short lived and can only survive a maximum of seven years.
Passion fruit flower facts. Facts about blue passion flower. Its common names also include passionfruit english maracujá portuguese maracuyá or parcha spanish grenadille or fruit de la passion french or lilikoʻi hawaiian and mburukuja guaraní. The passion flower plant has palmately lobed 3 7 or 9 lobed glossy leaves.
The passion fruit is a pepo a type of berry round to oval with a soft to firm juicy interior filled with numerous seeds. Passionflowers measure about 3 inches in diameter and are commonly red purple blue pink white or variegated. As a relaxing tea they impart a mildly fruity flavor that is often complimented by chamomile lemon balm valerian root and st.
There are several types that vary in size and color. The wild passion flower passion vine or maypop passiflora incarnata climbs about 3 to 9 metres 10 to 30 feet high and has pink and white flowers about 4 to 7 5 cm 1 5 to 3 inches across and a yellow berrylike edible fruit about 5 cm long. It has a tough outer rind and juicy seed filled center.
The base of each passion flower leaf has a flagellate twining tendril. The exotic passionflower features five sepals five petals two thin rings above the. To prevent the butterflies from laying too many eggs on any single plant some passion flowers bear small colored nubs which.
It is native to southern brazil through paraguay and northern argentina. The leaves are used as food plants by the larva of a number of lepidoptera. That long list of health benefits commonly attributed to passion fruit is due to the nutrient mineral and vitamin content of the fruit which includes antioxidants flavonoids vitamin a vitamin c riboflavin niacin iron magnesium phosphorus potassium copper fiber and protein.
The yellow passion flower p. The flowers may also be made into a tincture by combining them with a high proof vodka and letting steep at room temperature for few weeks. Passion fruit is the fruit of the passiflora vine a type of passion flower.