Passion Fruit (Passiflora edulis)

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Identidad taxonómica

Scientific name: Passiflora edulis Sims
Canonical name: The scientific name without its authorship or date, for example Zea mays instead of Zea mays L.: Passiflora edulis
Authorship: The author or authors credited with publishing the scientific name. It is written after the name, sometimes with the year, for example L. (Linnaeus) in Zea mays L. An author in parentheses first published the name in another genus or rank.: Sims
Common names: Passion Fruit, Passionfruit, Purple granadilla, Purple passionfruit, Black passion fruit, Purple granadilla, common passionfruit, passionflower, water lemon, yellow passion fruit
Names in other languages (76)
Fruit de la passion, Grenadille, Grinadel, Maracuja, Maruçya, Męczennica jadalna, Parcha (ES), Passiflore comestible, Passiflore comestible, Grenadille, Fruit de la Passion, Grenadelle, Grenadine, Passionsfrucht, Pomme-Liane, Purple Passion Fruit, Purple granadilla (EN), Water lemon fruit, amakudjá, ceibey, chinola, couzou, curuba, flor de las cinco lagas, fruit de la passion, frutto della passione, granadiglia, grenadella, grenadelle, grenadilla, grenadille, grenadine, kudamonotokeiso, kvapioji pasiflora, liliko'i, lilikoi, ling mangkon, maracujá, maracujá-comum, maracujá-de-comer, maracujá-de-ponche, maracujá-do-mato, maracujá-doce, maracujá-mirim, maracujá-peroba, maracujá-preto, maracujá-redondo, maracuyá, marakuja, markisa, markisah, mučenka jedlá, parcha, parchita, pasjonsfrukt, passionsfrugt, passionsfrukt, punapassio, tukisu, uganandela, wildegrenadella, Маракуйя, Маракуја, Страстоцвет съедобный, פסיפלורה, שעונית נאכלת, آلامية مأكولة, فاكهة زهرة الآلام, ماراكويا, కౌరవ పాండవ పువ్వు, වැල් දොඩම්, เสาวรส, クダモノトケイソウ, ショクヨウトケイソウ, パッションフルーツ, ミナリトケイソウ, 時計果, 果物時計草, 熱情果, 百香果, 雞蛋果
Kingdom: One of the broadest ranks of biological classification. It groups organisms that share very basic features, for example plants (Plantae), animals (Animalia) or fungi (Fungi).: Plantae
Phylum: Rank below kingdom that groups organisms with a shared general body plan, for example chordates (Chordata), arthropods (Arthropoda) or vascular plants (Tracheophyta). In botany the same rank is also called division.: Tracheophyta
Class: Rank below phylum, for example mammals (Mammalia), birds (Aves), insects (Insecta) or monocot plants such as grasses and orchids (Liliopsida).: Magnoliopsida
Order: Rank below class that groups related families, for example grasses and their relatives (Poales) or bats (Chiroptera).: Malpighiales
Family: Rank below order that groups related genera. Family names usually end in -aceae in botany (for example Poaceae, the grass family) and in -idae in zoology (for example Felidae, the cat family).: Passifloraceae
Genus: Rank that groups closely related species. Its name is the first word of a species' scientific name and starts with a capital letter, for example Zea in Zea mays.: Passiflora
Specific epithet: The second word of a species' scientific name. On its own it does not name the species: it always goes with the genus, for example mays in Zea mays.: edulis
Taxonomic rank: The level a name occupies in the hierarchy of biological classification, such as kingdom, family, genus, species or subspecies.: species
Reference species: Passiflora edulis
Taxonomic status: Whether the taxonomic catalogue the record comes from currently accepts this name for the organism, or treats it as a synonym of another accepted name or as doubtful.: accepted name

Photos and conservation status

IUCN Red List category: The extinction-risk category that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assigns to a species on its Red List. EX Extinct: there is no reasonable doubt that the last individual has died. EW Extinct in the wild: it survives only in cultivation, in captivity or as a population far outside its past range. CR Critically endangered, EN Endangered and VU Vulnerable: the three threatened categories, from an extremely high to a high risk of extinction in the wild. NT Near threatened: close to qualifying as threatened. LC Least concern: evaluated and not threatened. DD Data deficient: there is not enough information to assess its risk. NE Not evaluated: not yet assessed against the criteria. It describes the risk of the species worldwide, not its situation in a project's area.: Not evaluated (NE)
Source: IUCN Red List via GBIF, queried on 2026-10-09 06:05.

Photo of Passiflora edulis Sims — Photo: filipeprates · CC0 1.0 · View original image · Original observation

Research-grade iNaturalist observations via GBIF, CC0 or CC BY licences only, queried on 2026-10-09 06:05.

Interacciones documentadas

GloBI says it is documented somewhere in the world. Biolitica answers whether it could happen here.

A documented interaction means it was recorded somewhere in the world. It does not mean it occurs here.

Types shown: 1 of 15 has its flowers visited by × 14 more types with data for this species

Flower visit

has its flowers visited by 71 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. Visiting a flower is not pollinating it. «Pollinates» is a different term and a different block, and merging the two is the measured defect that turned ~88 shared «pollinators» into birds and primates.

Organism	Reads as	Studies	Where it was documented
Eastern Carpenter Xylocopa virginica Apidae	has its flowers visited by	81	not compared
81 sources · 81 records https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1217954 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · June 27, 2009 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/299241939 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · May 6, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/299242303 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · May 6, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1866848 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Aug. 16, 2015 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1900006 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Aug. 28, 2015 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1900009 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Aug. 28, 2015 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/3599554 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 2, 2016 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/4074180 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Sept. 9, 2016 · Human observation And 73 more sources, with fewer records, not listed here. A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Gulf Fritillary Dione vanillae Nymphalidae	has its flowers visited by	10	not compared
10 sources · 11 records https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/87476872 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Record contexts (sample): no place published · July 17, 2021 · Human observation; no place published · July 17, 2021 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/715221 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · May 11, 2014 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/218258256 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · May 20, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/218258883 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · May 20, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/328123686 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Oct. 3, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/242132594 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Sept. 16, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/382599681 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 18, 2026 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/179915704 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Aug. 23, 2023 · Human observation And 2 more sources, with fewer records, not listed here. A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
European Honey Bee Apis mellifera Apidae	has its flowers visited by	10	not compared
10 sources · 12 records Records of organisms other than plants having flower visitors are probably errors Published in globalbioticinteractions/refuted-biotic-interactions-by-eol Record contexts (sample): no place published · no date published; no place published · no date published Ollerton, J., Trunschke, J. ., Havens, K. ., Landaverde-González, P. ., Keller, A. ., Gilpin, A.-M. ., Rodrigo Rech, A. ., Baronio, G. J. ., Phillips, B. J., Mackin, C. ., Stanley, D. A., Treanore, E. ., Baker, E. ., Rotheray, E. L., Erickson, E. ., Fornoff, F. ., Brearley, F. Q… Published in globalbioticinteractions/ollerton2022 Context: no place published · no date published https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/302640874 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 27, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/212555746 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · May 1, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/217456475 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · May 22, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/116111422 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · May 6, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/315916653 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Sept. 22, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/318224263 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Sept. 29, 2025 · Human observation And 2 more sources, with fewer records, not listed here. A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
European Honey Bee Apis mellifera Apidae	has its flowers visited by	7	not compared
7 sources · 7 records https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/267109080 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · March 26, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/171671726 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 6, 2023 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/78267218 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · May 10, 2021 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/80438517 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · May 26, 2021 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/80515967 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · May 16, 2021 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/89826866 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · May 5, 2021 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/93816616 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Sept. 5, 2021 · Human observation A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.

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Interaction data from Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI), GloBI 0.11. Each row keeps the citation its own study published.

Interactions are published at species level: they are not resolved by variety or race.

Each block is headed by the source's own term, read from this species' end — not by a category of ours. Two similar terms are not merged.

«Documented here» means the interaction was observed in this territory. It is not evidence that the species is here, and it does not enter the niche model.

Acompañantes documentados

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Documented uses and recommendations

Uses and recommendations that a source documents for this species beside a crop, each in its own context. They are the source's statements, not traits of the species and not Biolítica's recommendations, and none of them is a relation between two species.

Among the sources you can read, none documents a use or recommendation of this species beside a crop.