Passiflora caerulea Passion Flower
Family
Passifloraceae
Genus
Passiflora
Species
caerulea
Passiflora caerulea, the blue passionflower, bluecrown passionflower or common
passion flower, is a species of flowering plant native to South America (Argentina,
Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay and Brazil). It is a vigorous, deciduous or semi-evergreen
tendril vine growing to 10 m (33 ft) or more, with palmate leaves and fragrant,
blue-white flowers with a prominent fringe of coronal filaments in bands of blue, white,
and brown. The ovoid orange fruit, growing to 6 cm (2 in), is edible but
bland.