Passiflora edulis

• Botanical Name : Passiflora edulis Sims
• Synonyms : Passiflora incarnata L.
• Common Name : Purple Passion Flower, Apricot Vine, Krushna Kamal
• Common Name Details :

  The name 'Passion Flower' was given to symbolize the instrument of Christ's Passion - The Gynandrophore is the scourging post, the corona is the crown of thorn, the stamens are five wounds and the stigmas the three nails of crucifixion.

• Plant Family : Passifloraceae
• Plant Form : Climbers
• Occurrence (Sectors) : 5
• Occurrence (Special Areas) : Gujarat Forestry Research Foundation

About Passiflora edulis Plant :

• Habit : A big woody climber with stem-tendrils.
• Leaves : Deeply 3-lobed, serrate, base rounded, petioles with 2 glands at the base of the lamina.
• Flowers :
  • Big, solitary, white, deeply tinted with purple, bracts 3 with glands at the margins.
  • Calyx 5-lobed, greenish. Petals, narrow inside with purple colour.
  • Corona in 2 rows of many purple-coloured filamentous segments.
  • Stamens 5 on the androgynophore, anthers versatile.
  • Ovary superior, oblong on an androgynophore, styles 5, stigma capitate, placenta 3, parietal with many ovules.
• Fruit : Berry.globose, seds many, arillate.
• Flowering and Fruiting Time : August - September
• Significance :
  • Cultivated in the gardens.
  • The leaves are used to cure itche, giddiness and headache.