Passiflora incarnata the stems can be bland or pubescent; they are continued and trailing, possessing abounding tendrils. Leaves are alternating and palmately 3-lobed and occasionally 5-lobed, barometer 6–15 centimetres (2.4–5.9 in). They accept two appropriate glands at the abject of the brand on the petiole.
Flowers accept 5 bluish-white petals. They display a white and amethyst corona, a anatomy of accomplished appendages amid the petals and stamens. They are pollinated by insects such as bumblebees and carpenter bees, and are self-sterile. The flower commonly blooms in July.The ample flower is about abiding in a ring aloft the petals and sepals.
The ample fruit, aswell referred to as a maypop, is an egg-shaped bare drupe about the admeasurement of a hen egg; it is blooming at first, but again becomes orange as it matures. As with added passifloras, it is the abecedarian aliment of a amount of butterfly species, including the adjudicator longwing and Gulf fritillary.
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