A succulent dry deciduous vine from Madagascar that forms a swollen caudex from which long, slender shoots with heart-shaped leaves emerge during the wet season...
A dry deciduous shrub that produces many slender, arching or scandent, spiny, greenish branches from a massive, short, succulent, warty green caudex that can reach up to 2.5 m in diameter. The leaves are small and grayish green, the small flowers are yellow. Adenia globosa is native to savannahs fro..
A succulent, dry deciduous vine in the passionflower family that forms a small, swollen caudex from which slender, creeping or scrambling, glaucous shoots emerge during the wet season. Adenia isaloensis is native to Madagascar...
A tropical vine related to the passionflower from the rainforests of Southeast Asia with attractive flowers and fruits. Despite being poisonous, the young shoots are locally popular as a delicious and tender green vegetable...
An outstanding, small to medium tree, rarely more than 20 m tall with very glossy green leaves and stunning, large, orange to yellowish flowers. Erblichia odorata is native to rainforests in southern Mexico to Panama from sea level to 1200 m. In cultivation it adapts easily to a wide range of tropic..
A vigorous vine with large, lobed leaves and fairly large, white and purple flowers followed by purplish, egg-shaped, edible fruits. The leaves and stems are conspicuously bristly and stick to clothes like velcro. Passiflora adenopoda is native to forests from southern Mexico along the Andes to Peru..
A vigorous vine with large, fragrant, red and purple flowers followed by large, yellow to orange, edible fruits. In cultivation it is best suited to tropical and most warm temperate climates...
A slender, tendriled climbing plant with bifid leaves and white and purple flowers followed by small fruits. Passiflora alnifolia is native to montane rainforests and cloud forests of the Andes mainly in Colombia and Ecuador between 1700 to 3200 m...
A large, vigorous vine, originally native lowland and montane rainforests in tropical Central and South America. The beautiful, very large, pink and purple flowers make it a very popular ornamental and the large, yellowish-orange fruits contain many seeds with edible, somewhat acidic arils. In culti..
An attractive vine from disturbed rainforests in Central and South America, at elevations between sea level and 1500 m. Passiflora auriculata displays distinctive, lanceolate leaves, with ear-shaped glands near the base and a profusion of cream to yellowish-green flowers, purple toward the base, fol..
This herbaceous climbing plant remains rather small with a height of about 2 m. Passiflora boenderi is a pretty and rare species native to Costa Rica that stands out not only for its interesting small flowers, but also for its multicolored leaves. It is common in humid montane rainforests between 70..
A small, climbing passion vine with bilobed leaves and small, white flowers followed by tiny, black fruits. All parts of the plant are covered with very fine, soft hairs. Passiflora bogotensis is native to cloud forests in Colombia and Venezuela between 2000 and 3500 m. In cultivation it does best i..