#passiflora incarnata

[dvoeverie-stitches]

St. John’s Day Passionflower Harvest

St. John’s Day passionflower forage—tonight I focused on finding flowers to mix into my dried leaves. The sun finally came out to say hello at the very end of Midsummer Day.

[novella-november]

For my fellow East-Coast North Americans who like to garden, do you know about:

1) Native Passionflowers

Did you know North America has edible passion fruit that is cold hardy below 32°, has large, beautiful and fragrant flowers, spreads through runners underground, and is a host plant to 3+ native butterflies? :D

The species name is Passiflora Incarnata, and the most common, common name is Maypop(s)!

[ID: A photo of a Passiflora Incarnata blossom, which has large white petals in the background, wavy purple filaments that are magenta towards the center, with yellow and green structures in the center for releasing and receiving pollen. Obscured by the pollen structure, there is a large bee drinking nectar from the center of the flower. End ID]

2) Native Bamboo

Did you know that there's a whole genus of Bamboo native to North America which is endangered (but not Officially ™, because red tape) that grows from Florida, up to Massachusetts, out to Texas and Oklahoma? And it used to cover miles and miles of land as habitat for bison and passenger pigeons before the British colonization?

If you live in South Carolina and you've ever seen bamboo or reeds along the side of the road in the forest, you're most likely looking at a rare endangered species all around you you didn't know about ! :D

They spread through rhizomes, and flowering is, depending on the species, either a *once in a lifetime event so extremely rare there's barely any documentation of it* where the *entire plant dies afterwards* (so, an entire huge grove that is a mile across could flower once after decades, and then die!) or.... They can flower multiple times a year for multiple years in a row without dying, and be completely unheard of until it gets documented consistently online :D

The genus is called Arundinaria, and as of March 2026, there's *currently* 4 species:

Arundinaria Giagantea, (River Cane),

Arundinaria Tecta (Switch Cane),

Arundinaria Applachiana (Hill Cane)

Arundinaria Alabamensis (Tallappoosa Cane).

If you find out you've had this plant growing wild on your property, they are very easy to propagate from rhizome cuttings!

[ID: A photo of a plant pot that has a small Arundinaria plant in it, with a dozen or more, very thin, tall stems coming out of the center, each topped with bright green bamboo leaves slightly yellow on the edges from the cold. End ID]

This is also the time of year that some species are flowering, so if you've got it nearby, go hunting for little grass flowers! Sometimes they're green, sometimes they're purple-- its nice when they're purple since they stand out more to the eye!

[ID: A photo of Arundinaria flowers with a hand held behind them for scale. The flowers look like typical grain flowers, and are purple, with a few hanging green pollen tassels. End ID].

Bonus!

If you grow tomatoes and peppers, you should consider growing eggplant (even if you don't like to cook with eggplant yourself, you can gift it to friends and neighbors :D ) or, for a more ornamental option (IF and only if you don't have small children or pets that could get into them -- ) Brugmansia flowers, so you can transfer any hornworms that show up on your peppers and tomatoes onto the eggplant or Brugmansia leaves instead!

They're all in the Solanaceae family, so the hornworm caterpillars can eat all of their leaves, but eggplant and Brugmansia have much, much bigger leaves so they can more easily feed the caterpillars without stripping the plant bare --

-- you get to watch some cool native caterpillars in action as they grow exponentially in size over what feels like overnight, which helps native pollinators who are losing out on their native wild solanums due to deforestation, without having to worry when your food plants get defoliated !

You can look up the Five-Spotted Hawkmoth to see some really neat pictures of their adult forms :) the scientific name is the extremely long Manduca Quinquemaculata, which I have only spelled correctly via the wonders of copy-and-paste 😂

If you want to transform the way you garden completely, start growing host plants specifically for native "pest" pollinators like hornworms, and instead of being pissed off or panicking at the sight of a hornworm munching on your tomato plant, you'll get super excited!

(Speaking of: If your pepper or tomato *do* get stripped of all their leaves before you notice, don't panic! If the weather has been dry, give the plant a good watering, and it will bounce back even bushier than before! )

[faguscarolinensis]

Passiflora incarnata / Purple Passionflower at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

[bolaneno]

Dear Passiflora,

Thank you for your beauty and medicine 💜

[bonefarm]

Floors

[wsjyuyuyuau]

Cheelai (Dragon Ball)

Name: Cheelai

Series: Dragon Ball

Gender: Female

Status: Alive

Family: Broly and Lemo (Housemates)

Flower Motif: Purple Passionflower (Passiflora incarnata)

Flower Meaning: Understanding

Weapon of Choice: Sniper Rifle

Associated With: Interdimensional Hero Club

Stationed At Which Cafe: Tokyo, Japan

Hero Form Appearance: A hybrid of a space huntress' uniform and YuYuYu’s Hero Form Outfits. The undersuit of the outfit is jet black, acting as a contrast for the more vibrant colors. And while the main outfit starts out a light purple, it becomes a soft lime starting at the lower half of the sleeves, the lower half of the pants, and the tailcoat. Accent colors are white, black, gray, silver, dark green, and gold. The shoes, gloves, and belt all have patterns of passionflowers on them, and the only other accessory is a clip in her hair that looks just like the flower. The flower’s petal shape can be seen in the tailcoat and collar.

Full Bloom Gauge Location: Left Breast

Guardian: Komoi (Based on a Kodama)

Favorite Food: Omurice

Parallel To: None

Bio: A former soldier in the Frieza Force who became Broly’s first friend who was an actual person, Cheelai absolutely knows how to read a room and prevent further conflict- even if it means helping Broly get used to anxiety inducing places on Earth.

[stopandlook]

Scientific Name: Passiflora incarnata Common Name(s): Purple passionflower, maypop Family: Passifloraceae (passionflower) Life Cycle: Perennial Leaf Retention: Deciduous Habit: Vine, forb USDA L48 Native Status: Native Location: Allen, Texas Season(s): Summer

The name comes from associating the flower with the Passion of Jesus.

[walks-the-ages]

Anyways if you see a Sponsored Post about "How to Take Passiflora" know that its bullshit and like 90% of ai-generated "Articles" about the herbal uses of Passiflora Incarnata, it uses a picture of the completely wrong species of Passiflora when its talking about Passiflora Incarnata which is just going to get someone extremely sick or killed.

[ID: a cropped and color-altered screenshot of a Sponsored Tumblr post, showing the word "origin" followed by a photo of a passionflower that is not a Passiflora Incarnata, and appears to be in the Passiflora Foetida complex, with very thick white filaments, a bright pink center, and branched bracts used to trap insects. The whole image has a slight green tint to separate it from the rest of the post. End ID]

Don't take fucking medical advise for herbal supplements from any website that can't even show the actual species they're talking about, and especially if they don't even name the particular species in the first place and then proceed to show flowers from four different, toxic species.

Passiflora Incarnata is the only Passiflora species that it is safe to consume the leaves and that's only if you know for a *fact* that you have Passiflora Incarnata on hand and aren't just assuming its that based on 20 different incorrect photos presented by these shitty articles which show flowers from Edulis, Caerulea (!) and foetida instead of actual Incarnata.

If you try eating or making tea out of passiflora leaves that are not Incarnata you are going to make yourself very, very sick with fucking cyanide.