PASSION FLOWER PLANT

Fruits have been growing on the pokok markisa or passion flower plant that is a creeper on top of the pergola. There are quite a number of flowers and a few fruits can be seen. The fruits are edible. This morning Puan Bani and Puan Rosmawati went to have a look at the plant. Read the information below to know more about this plant and its fruit which is called passion fruit.

Division:Angiosperma
Class:Magnoliopsida
Order:Malpighiales
Family:Passifloraceae
Genus:Passiflora
Species:P. edulis

Passiflora edulis or passion fruit is cultivated commercially for its fruit in northwestern South America, India, the Caribbean, Brazil, southern Florida, Hawaii, Australia, East Africa, Israel and South Africa (where it is known as a grenadilla or granadilla). The passion fruit is round to oval, yellow or dark purple at maturity, with a soft to firm, juicy interior filled with numerous seeds. The fruit can be grown to eat or for its juice, which is often added to other fruit juices to enhance aroma.
The two types of passion fruit have greatly different exterior appearances. The bright yellow variety of passion fruit, which is also known as the Golden Passionfruit, can grow up to the size of a grapefruit, has a smooth, glossy, light and airy rind, and has been used as a rootstock for the purple passionfruit in Australia. The dark purple passion fruit (for example, in Kenya) is smaller than a lemon, with a dry, wrinkled rind at maturity. Source: Wikipedia