What is Passiflora?
{{Automatic taxobox | image = OQ Passion flower.jpg | image_caption = ''[[Passiflora incarnata|Passiflora&nbsp;incarnata]]'' | image2 = Parcha granadilla.JPG | image2_caption = ''[[Passiflora_quadrangularis|P.&nbsp;quadrangularis]] unripe fruit'' | display_parents = 2 | taxon = Passiflora | authority = [[Carl Linnaeus|L.]] | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = About 550, see [[List of Passiflora species|list]] | synonyms = *''Anthactinia'' {{small|([[Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent|Bory]] ex [[Max Joseph Roemer|M.Roem.]])}} *''Asephananthes'' {{small|([[Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent|Bory]])}} *''Astrophea'' {{small|([[Jean-Baptiste Lamarck|Lam.]] ex [[Max Joseph Roemer|M.Roem.]])}} *''Baldwinia'' {{small|([[Constantine Samuel Rafinesque|Raf.]])}} *''Ceratosepalum'' {{small|([[Oerst.]])}} *''Cieca'' {{small|([[Medik.]])}} *''Decaloba'' {{small|([[Max Joseph Roemer|M.Roem.]])}} *''Disemma'' {{small|([[Labill.]])}} *''Granadilla'' {{small|([[Mill.]])}} *''Hollrungia'' {{small|([[K.Schum.]])}} *''Monactineirma'' {{small|([[Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent|Bory]])}} *''Murucuja'' {{small|([[Medik.]])}} *''Pentaria'' {{small|([[Max Joseph Roemer|M.Roem.]])}} *''Poggendorffia'' {{small|([[H.Karst.]])}} *''Tacsonia'' {{small|([[Juss.]])}} *''Tetrapathaea'' {{small|([[Augustin Pyramus de Candolle|DC.]]) ([[Ludwig Reichenbach|Rchb.]])}} *''Tetrastylis'' {{small|([[Barb.Rodr.]])}} | type_species = ''[[Passiflora incarnata]]'' }} '''''Passiflora''''' is also known as the passion flowers or passion vines. It is a [[genus]] of about 500 [[species]] of [[flowering plant]]s. They are mainly [[vine]]s, with some being [[shrub]]s, and a few species being [[herbaceous]]. See [[passionfruit]] for information about the fruit of the passiflora plant. The family ''Passifloraceae'' is characterized by a pantropical distribution. ''Passiflora'' is absent from Africa, which, instead, hosts many other members of its family (e.g. the more plesiomorphic ''Adenia''). There are nine species of ''Passiflora'' native to