What is a purple passion?

Purple passion is a rapidly growing permanent vines that produce complex purple flowers and small fruits known as a torture. The scientific name of this plant is passiflora incarnata and some other common names include Mapop, apricot vines, purple bed and passionate vines. In the southeast US, it often occurs growing in the wild and is easy to do in the gardens under the right conditions. There are several diverse uses of leaves, stems and fruit. Strong, slightly hairy stems of vine use tendrils to catch support structures such as trees, shrubs or lattice, and are able to grow to 6.5 feet (2 m). Flowers of purple passions have a complex, layered arrangement. The lower layer has white rounded petals, with a layer of fine purple marginal petals; The center is white surrounded by darker purple rings with white sticks that come from it. The fruit is green with egg shape, sweet meat and many seeds.

The native area of ​​purple passion is the southeast US, which stretches from Virginia south to Florida, then west to Texas and north to Oklahoma. It requires sunny environment and often occurs growing on the edges of wooded areas, along roads and in the fields. In gardens, they are often grown on grids, walls or trees or shrubs. It tends to grow in many ways and looks best in less formal settings.

Purple Passion does not require much maintenance. A damp, slightly sandy soil with good drainage is preferred and a mulch layer is useful. The vines should be regularly connected and will be successful in full sun into a partial shadow. It will grow very quickly the right conditions, flowering in June and July and producing fruit in autumn. Fragrant flowers often attract butterflies.

Fruit from purple hanging vines is edible; It is sweet with a taste similar to Guava as soon as it is fully mature and can be consumed raw or madeAnd to Jelá. The leaves are also edible and can be eaten cooked or raw salad and flowers can be made in syrup or cook as vegetables. There are also renowned healing uses for leaves and stems, for example as a soothing, sedative herb for insomnia, nervous tension, irritability and menstrual complaints.