Passion fruit
कृष्ण फलதாட்பூட்பழம்కౌరవ పాండవ పువ్వు
Passiflora edulis Sims
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 6.0 m
- wide
- 3.2 m
Passifloraceae
Also called Common passionfruit, Purple granadilla
Formerly Granadilla edulis, Passiflora cuneifolia, Passiflora diaden, Passiflora fragrans, and 9 more
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- LianaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Brazil to NE. ArgentinaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from RHS and UF/IFAS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS full, part; UF/IFAS full
- Height
- 4.0 m to 8.0 mRead from RHS, one source
- Spread
- 2.5 m to 4.0 mRead from RHS, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS and UF/IFAS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- maracuyá, parchita, parcha
- Portuguese
- maracujá
- Hawaiian
- lilikoi, liliko'i
- Chinese
- 雞蛋果, 百香果, 熱情果
- Hebrew
- פסיפלורה, שעונית נאכלת
- Indonesian
- markisa, Markisa
- Chinese (China)
- 百香果, 鸡蛋果, 紫果西番莲
- Finnish
- punapassio, Punapassio
- Czech
- mučenka jedlá
- Japanese
- クダモノトケイソウ, パッションフルーツ, ミナリトケイソウ
- Russian
- Страстоцвет съедобный, Маракуйя
- Swedish
- passionsfrukt
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- UF/IFAS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Passiflora edulis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.