Common Name: Passion Fruit
Description
Passiflora edulis is a vine species of passion flower that is native to Brazil, Paraguay and northern Argentina. Its common names include passion fruit (US), passionfruit (UK and Commonwealth), and purple granadilla (South Africa), Maracujá (Brazil) and Lilikoi (Hawaii).
It is cultivated commercially in tropical and subtropical areas for its sweet, seedy fruit and is widely grown in several countries of South America, Central America, the Caribbean, Africa, Southern Asia, Vietnam, Israel, Australia, South Korea, Hawaii (Lilikoi) and the mainland United States. . . . .Read more
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Selected Species
- Adansonia kilima
- Allanblackia floribunda
- Dacryodes edulis
- Irvingia gabonensis
- Moringa oleifera
- Ricinodendron heudelotii
- Sclerocarya birrea
- Tamarindus indica
- Uapaca kirkiana
- Vitellaria paradoxa
- Vitex doniana
- Ziziphus mauritiana
- Anacardium occidentale
- Annona senegalensis.
- Annona reticulata
- Artocarpus heterophyllus
- Balanites aegyptiaca
- Canarium madagascariense
- Carica papaya
- Carissa spinarum
- Casimiroa edulis
- Cocos nucifera
- Detarium senegalense
- Diospyros mespiliformis
- Dovyalis caffra
- Elaeis guineensis
- Faidherbia albida
- Garcinia livingstonei
- Garcinia mangostana
- Gnetum africanum
- Hibiscus sabdariffa
- Mangifera indica
- Morus alba
- Opuntia monacantha
- Parinari curatellifolia
- Persea americana
- Psidium guajava
- Saba comorensis
- Strychnos spinosa
- Syzygium guineense
- Parkia biglobosa
- Adansonia digitata
- Ximenia caffra
- Ensete ventricosum
- Lablab purpureus
- Lens culinaris
- Macrotyloma geocarpum
- Momordica charantia
- Musa acuminata AAA Group
- Musa balbisiana
- Phaseolus vulgaris
- Plectranthus esculentus
- Plectranthus rotundifolius
- Solanum nigrum
- Talinum fruticosum
- Tylosema esculentum
- Vangueria madagascariensis
- Vangueria infausta
- Vicia faba
- Vigna radiata
- Vigna subterranea
- Xanthosoma sagittifolium
- Abelmoschus caillei
- Amaranthus blitum
- Amaranthus tricolor
- Basella alba
- Brassica carinata
- Cassia obtusifolia
- Celosia argentea
- Citrullus lanatus
- Cleome gynandra
- Colocasia esculenta
- Corchorus olitorius
- Crassocephalum rubens
- Crotalaria juncea
- Cucumis metuliferus
- Cucurbita maxima
- Cyphomandra betacea
- Digitaria exilis
- Dioscorea alata
- Dioscorea rotundata
- Eleusine coracana
- Allium cepa
- Ipomoea batatas
- Musa x paradisiaca AAB Group
- Passiflora edulis
- Solanum aethiopicum
- Sphenostylis stenocarpa
- Telfairia occidentalis
- Xanthosoma spp
- Amaranthus cruentus
- Boscia senegalensis
- Chrysophyllum
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