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Passionflowers
Passiflora
Passiflora, known also as the passion flowers or passion vines, is a genus of about 550 species of flowering plants, and the type genus of the family Passifloraceae.
Passiflora species are widely cultivated for their striking flowers, flavorful fruits, traditional medicinal uses, and roles in dietary supplements and ayahuasca analogs, with several ornamental hybrids earning Royal Horticultural Society awards.
7 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Typical Passionflowers
subgenusPassiflora
Decaloba
subgenusDecaloba
banana passion fruit
subgenusTacsonia
Tetrapathea
subgenusTetrapathea
Astrophea
subgenusAstrophea
Tryphostemmatoides
subgenusTryphostemmatoides
Deidamioides
subgenusDeidamioides
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Jan Moninckx; Maria Moninckx — Moninckx Atlas, vol. 2 (1686)
Jan Moninckx; Maria Moninckx · 1686 · p.40
Treasury of Medical Matters of New Spain
Francisco Hernández · 1651 · p.349
Historia naturalis Brasiliae
Willem Piso / Georg Marcgraf · 1648 · p.216
Treasury of Medical Matters of New Spain
Francisco Hernández · 1651 · p.939
Treasury of Medical Matters of New Spain
Francisco Hernández · 1651 · p.981
Jan Moninckx; Maria Moninckx — Moninckx Atlas, vol. 2 (1686)
Jan Moninckx; Maria Moninckx · 1686 · p.42
Jan Moninckx; Maria Moninckx — Moninckx Atlas, vol. 2 (1686)
Jan Moninckx; Maria Moninckx · 1686 · p.39
Jan Moninckx; Maria Moninckx — Moninckx Atlas, vol. 2 (1686)
Jan Moninckx; Maria Moninckx · 1686 · p.41
Description of the Plants of America
Charles Plumier · 1693 · p.190
Illustrated Compendium of Materia Medica (Vol. 27)
吳其濬 · 1848 · p.108
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Passiflora in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 51452.