Name: Passion Fruit
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Passiflora edulis, commonly known as passion fruit, is a vine species of passion flower native to southern Brazil through Paraguay and northern Argentina.^[1] It is cultivated commercially in tropical and subtropical areas for its sweet, seedy fruit. The fruit is a pepo, a type of berry, round to oval, either yellow or dark purple at maturity, with a soft to firm, juicy interior filled with numerous seeds. The fruit is both eaten and juiced, the juice often added to other fruit juices to enhance aroma.

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Passion Fruit

Passiflora edulis is a perennial vine; tendrils are borne in leaf axils, and have a red or purple hue when young. There are two main varieties: a purple-fruited type, P. edulis f. edulis, and the yellow-fruited P. edulis f. flavicarpa.^[3]^[4]

Usually the vine produces a single flower 5–7.5 cm wide at each node.^[1]^[5] The flower has 5 oblong, green sepals and 5 white petals.^[6] The sepals and petals are 4-6mm in length and form a fringe.^[6] The base of the flower is a rich purple with 5 stamens, an ovary, and a branched style.^[1] The styles bend backward and the stigmas, which are located on top of the styles, have a very distinct head.^[6]

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