#passifloraincarnata

[natacha-celeste]

La pasiflora es una planta que se utiliza para los problemas del sueño (insomnio), trastornos gastrointestinales relacionados con la ansiedad o el nerviosismo, trastorno de ansiedad generalizada y aliviar los síntomas relacionados con la abstinencia de narcóticos.

[joqatana]

[seedkeeping]

Passion Flower vines have swirling tendrils that are seeking something to climb. This one here swirls above our sweet potato nursery where we are making slips for planting. Truelove Seeds apprentice Julia Aguilar has spent years working with medicinal herbs, and she told us that Passion Flower is a gentle sedative that helps to ease our swirling, anxious thoughts. Because of this she likes to include the spiraling tendrils with the leaves, vines, and flowers when making medicine. Passion Flower is native to the southern US where it is known as Ocoee or Uwaga in Cherokee. Traditionally, all parts of the plant are used for food and medicine. In the Cherokee Phoenix, Shawna Cain wrote that “the Cherokee have historically used the flower as a mild sedative for restlessness, anxiety, nervous stomach, high blood pressure and symptoms of menopause. Passion Flower roots are bruised and made into a poultice used to “draw out” poisons from boils and cuts while a tincture is also made and dropped into infected ears to relieve earaches”. In our hoop house, this plant is spreading far and wide, so we will be harvesting lots of it for dried tea and tinctures all season. And of course, in the late summer we will be eating lots of it’s “apricots” (or “maypops”) and saving the seeds for www.trueloveseeds.com. #passifloraincarnata #maypop #ocoee #passionflower #passionvine https://www.instagram.com/seedkeeping/p/Bw29CdalnXM/?igshid=gzdtvzdlu86v

[muddyriverherbals-blog]

Passionflower update! Happy equinox, my sweets 💫 #growbabygrow . . . . . #passionflower #passifloraincarnata #medicinalherbs #instaspring #instagreen #womenwhofarm #massgrown #igersboston #bostonfoodies #seedstarting

[seedkeeping]

I found six baby passionflower fruits this morning! It is a perennial native to the land East of Texas all the way to the East Coast and as far north as Pennsylvania and now New Jersey. The fruits taste great, and the leaves and flowers make a calming sleep-aid. #passifloraincarnata #passionflower #passionfruit #maypop #plantmedicine #seedkeeping (at Delaware County, Pennsylvania)

[seedkeeping]

Passionflower nectar is abundant at the center of the crimped, disc-like corona, so honeybees, carpenter bees, and fritillary butterflies squeeze under one of the five stamens, getting a good pollen rub-down on their way in. At the next flower, the pollen will be received as they brush past one of the three stigmas. Pollination! Also, I just learned that this American plant was so named by Spanish missionaries as a teaching tool to explain the passion of Christ - with many of the flower parts representing elements of Jesus's last days and crucifixion (10 petals and sepals = 10 faithful apostles; 5 stamens = 5 wounds; 3 stigmas = 3 nails; corona = crown of thorns; etc.). #passifloraincarnata #passionflower #pollination #maypop (at Delaware County, Pennsylvania)

[seedkeeping]

Passion Flower is appropriately named. I grew this one from a seed that came out of a fruit @experimentalfarmnetwork shared with me at @roughwoodseeds a couple years ago. Where'd that fruit come from, Nate? #passifloraincarnata #passionflower (at Newtown Square, Pennsylvania)

[seedkeeping]

Passion Flower (Passiflora incarnata) seeds and a couple Soursop (Annona muricata) seeds - both native to the Americas, but grown in the Central African Republic. They are both tropical, but the Passionflower will likely do fine in the heat island of the Bronx, where Rose from New Roots Community Farm will plant them. #newrootscommunityfarm #internationalrescuecommittee #seedsaving #passifloraincarnata #passionflower #soursop #annonamuricata (at Bronx, New York)