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Abelmoschus esculentus (L - the University of Maine at Fort Kent

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Kerm<strong>at</strong>h, Bennett and Pulsipher - Food Plants in <strong>the</strong> Americs<br />

ENGLISH: golden passion fruit, Hawaiian passion fruit, mountain<br />

sweet cup, passion fruit, purple granadilla, purple passion<br />

fruit, yellow granadilla, yellow passion fruit<br />

PORTUGUESE: maracujá, maracujá-comum, maracujá-da-garapa, maracujáde-comer,<br />

maracujá-de-ponche, maracujá-doce, maracujá-do-m<strong>at</strong>o,<br />

maracujá-escuro, maracujá-mirim, maracujá-peroba, maracujá-preto,<br />

maracujá-redondo, maracujá-roxo, maracujá-suspiro, peroba<br />

SPANISH: burucuya, ceibey, chinola, chisqui, curuba, fruta de la<br />

pasión, granadilla, granadilla de quijos, granadilla morada,<br />

gulupa, gulupa-curuba, maracujá, maracuya, maracuyá, maracuyá<br />

amarilla, mburucuyá, murucuyá, parcha, parche, parchita morada,<br />

pasiflora, pasionaria, tacso, tacsonia, tasco, taxo<br />

USES/NOTES: Fruit’s tart aril is consumed fresh, in ice cream and<br />

desserts, as juice, as an alcohol mixer, made into liqueur, as a<br />

flavoring agent, and in salad dressings. An edible oil is<br />

extracted from <strong>the</strong> seeds. Juice also is medicinal. Climbing vines<br />

also are grown for <strong>the</strong>ir beautiful flowers and to <strong>at</strong>tract<br />

butterflies. The passion fruit <strong>of</strong> commerce is widely cultiv<strong>at</strong>ed<br />

in <strong>the</strong> tropics.<br />

NATURAL RANGE: Tropical Brazil possibly to eastern Amazonian Peru,<br />

Paraguay, and nor<strong>the</strong>rn Argentina<br />

REFERENCES: Adams 1972, Bonuccelli 1989, Bourke et al. 1987, Branch<br />

and Silva 1983, Campbell 1984, Carneiro Martins 1989, Deginani<br />

2001, Estrella 1991, Guia Rural n.d., IBGE 1980, Johns and<br />

Stevenson 1985, Kerm<strong>at</strong>h (notes), Naranjo 1991, Omawale 1973,<br />

Peret 1985, Popenoe 1974, Rodríguez Martínez 1987, Schneider<br />

1987, Silva et al. 1977, Smith et al. 1992, Will 1991<br />

Passiflora foetida L.<br />

FAMILY: Passifloraceae (passionflower)<br />

ENGLISH: love in a mist, running pop, semito, sim<strong>at</strong>oo, stinking<br />

passion-flower, tagua passionflower, wild semitoo, wild passionflower,<br />

wild w<strong>at</strong>er-lemon<br />

PORTUGUESE: maracujá-c<strong>at</strong>inga, maracujá-de-cheiro, maracujá-decobra,<br />

maracujá-de-estalo, maracujá-de-lagartinho, maracujá-deraposa,<br />

maracujá-de-sapo, maracujá-fedorento, maracujá-hirsutodo-sul<br />

SPANISH: <strong>at</strong>aco, bedoca, bejuco canastilla, bombillo, caguajasa,<br />

caguaza, caguazo, canizo, cinco-llagas, clavellín blanco, corona<br />

de cristo, flor de granadita, flor de pasión silvestre,<br />

granadilla cimarrona, granadilla colorada, granadilla de culebra,<br />

granadilla montés, granadilla silvestre, hóntayek, injito<br />

colorado, ké-pá, lokhoste, mburucuyá, mburucuyá aceitoso,<br />

mburucuyá campero, mburucuyá menor, mburucuyá rastrero, murucuyá<br />

miní, ñorbo cimarrón, ñorbo hediondo, parcha de culebra, parcha<br />

de monte, parchita de montaña, parchita de sabana, pasionaria de<br />

la candelaria, pasionaria, pasionaria hedionda, pedón, pocoto,<br />

puro-puro, puru-puru, sandía de culebra, tagua-tagua<br />

USES/NOTES: Fruit pulp <strong>of</strong> this now widespread, weedy climber is<br />

snacked on, though is inferior to many o<strong>the</strong>r Passiflora species.<br />

DRAFT - DO NOT DUPLICATE OR DISTRIBUTE<br />

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