Pyramidal passiflora. It is a climbing plant, native to Brazil, of the genus Passiflora. Its edible fruit, yellow or purple, is the passion fruit.

Description

Pyramidal passiflora. It is a climbing plant, native to Brazil, of the genus Passiflora. Its edible fruit, yellow or purple, is the passion fruit. Its stem is rigid and woody; It has alternate leaves of large size, perennial, smooth and dark green. The same plant can present non-lobed leaves when it begins to develop, and then trilobed leaves, due to the phenomenon of foliar heterophilia. The roots, as usual in climbing plants, are superficial. The flower is presented individually; it can reach five centimeters in diameter in wild varieties, and up to double in those selected for their ornamental value.