I'm dripping! Passion fruit in this form before picking

Passion fruit, also known as egg fruit, love fruit, scientific name: passionflower, Latin name: Passiflora edulis Sims. Passionflower family, passionflower is a herbaceous vine with thin striped stems and no hair. Leaf papery, middle lobes ovate, lobes on both sides ovate oblong, lobes with fine serrations at the edges of the lobes, 1 corner-shaped appendage at the outer apex; inner corolla non-pleated, full or irregularly torn at the apex, pale yellowish-green; inverted ovates, flattened rods, stigma kidney-shaped. The berries are ovoid, glabrous, purple when ripe; the seeds are mostly ovate.

passion fruit

It is a herbaceous vine, about 6 m long, and the stem has pinstripes and is glabrous. Leaf papery, 6–13 cm long and 8–13 cm wide, basal wedge-shaped or heart-shaped, palmate 3 deep fissures, middle lobes ovate, lobes on both sides ovate oblong, fissures with fine serrations at the tip of the internal curved glands at the edges of the lobes, 1-2 small goblet glands at the base of the near lobes, hairless.

Only 1 flower remains of the polyumbelt inflorescence, which grows opposite the tendrils; the flowers are fragrant and about 4 cm in diameter The peduncle is 4–4.5 cm long; the bracts are green, broadly ovate or diamond-shaped, 1–1.2 cm long, with irregular fine serrations at the edges; 5 sepals, green on the outside, green on the inside, 2.5–3 cm long, with 1 horn-like appendage at the outer tip; 5 petals, equal in length with sepals; 4-5 rounds of corolla filaments on the outside, about 4–5 rounds of filaments on the outside, about equal length to the petals, pale green at the base, purple in the middle, white at the top, narrow triangles in the inner 3 rounds of lobes, about 2 mm in length; non-folded in the inner corolla, full margin at the apex or irregularly torn, about 1–1.2 mm tall; disc membranous, about 4 mm high; and female and stamens stalks 1-1.2 cm long 5 stamens, filament separation, basal synapsym, 5-6 mm long, flattened; anthers oblong, 5-6 mm long, pale yellowish-green; inverted ovary ovoid, about 8 mm long, covered with short soft hairs; 3 flower pillars, flattened rod-shaped, stigma-head kidney-shaped.

The berries are ovoid in shape, 3–4 cm in diameter, glabrous, purple when ripe; The flowering period is in June and the fruiting period is in November.  

This article was co-edited by headline encyclopedia users CHENG Xiao C, Happy 1978.