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Passion Fruit

Passiflora edulis, commonly known as passion fruit, is a vine species of passion flower native to southern Brazil, through Paraguay, and northern Argentina. The fruit is a pepo, a type of botanical berry, round to oval, either yellow or dark purple at maturity, with a soft to firm, juicy interior filled with numerous seeds.

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Taxonomy

Scientific: Passiflora edulis
Genus: Passiflora
Kingdom: Plantae
Habit: vine