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amandamakepeace.bsky.social
A Passion Flower for @acidlich.bsky.social! Took this at a local nature center.

Passifloraceae 🌿💜
Flower in the Passifloraceae family, white petals with white and violet filaments.
August 20, 2023 at 2:20 PM
andreasbarlage.bsky.social
#bloomscrolling #dailyflowers #SchönesGegenDoofes

Passiflora trifasciata / Passifloraceae

Tropische Kletterpflanze
Die Blüten dieser Passionsblume, die an unserem Küchenfenster wächst, sind klitzeklein.

Tropical climber
Tiny flowers, attractive foilage and rampant growth characterize this beauty
February 17, 2026 at 9:22 AM
stonebear4747.bsky.social
Passiflora incarnata
Passiflora incarnata L.
Maypop, Purple Passionflower, Purple Passion Vine, Apricot Vine
Passifloraceae (Passion-Flower Family)
December 7, 2024 at 12:17 PM
scottzona.bsky.social
Let’s not forget the cyanogenic glycosides that the Zebra longwing butterfly (Heliconius charithonia) gets from its host, Passiflora spp. Here it is ovipositing on P. suberosa. #Passifloraceae #Aposematism #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Photo of a butterfly (black with yellow stripes) hovering over a plant that is climbing up the trunk of a tree. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.
December 17, 2025 at 11:30 AM
andreasbarlage.bsky.social
#bloomscrolling #dailyflowers #SchönesGegenDoofes

Passiflora ‘Amethyst‘ / Passifloraceae

Tropische Kletterpflanze
Gelegentlich bringt eine Passionsblume am Fenster Farbe ins Wintergrau

Tropical Climber
If a passionflower appears in winter at the window it let you dream of tropical zest for life.
January 29, 2026 at 8:01 AM
petespassis.bsky.social
27th July

#petespassis #passiflora #uk #berkshire #passifloraceae #tacsonia
July 27, 2025 at 1:08 PM
scottzona.bsky.social
Heliconiini butterfly larvae (Heliconius & kin) have a taste for Passiflora, which has evolved several lines of defense, including this one: Spots on P. boenderi that resemble butterfly eggs & making the leaves appear “occupied” so that gravid females look elsewhere. #Passifloraceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
: Close-up photo of bilobed leaves. Each lobe has a silvery midvein. Between the two midveins are a scattering of yellow spots. Photo by Scott Zona CCBYNC2.
August 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
petespassis.bsky.social
Elephant Hawk Moth on Passiflora caerulea

#petespassis #passiflora #uk #berkshire #passifloraceae #insect #moth #elephanthawk
July 4, 2025 at 7:08 PM
scottzona.bsky.social
Passiflora includes a few trees & shrubs, which, not surprisingly, lack tendrils. This is P. emarginata, a tree found in deciduous forests of Colombia. This one was cultivated in a glasshouse at RBG Kew. #Passifloraceae #TropicalBotany #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Photo of a leafy branch of a woody plant bearing white flowers with yellow coronas. Other potted plants are visible in the background. Photo by Scott Zona CCBYNC2.
August 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
scottzona.bsky.social
A few species of Passiflora are bat-pollinated. This is one of them: Passiflora mucronata from Brazil.
What? You were expecting something all black and goth? 📷: Flávio Mendes CCBYNC4 #Passifloraceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Close-up photo of a single flower. The sepals and petals are narrow and white. The corona is short and greenish. The androgynophore (the stalk holding the sexual parts) is long. There are five down-facing anthers and three stigmas.
August 8, 2025 at 11:24 AM
botsocamerica.bsky.social
Bioinformatics identify pathways related to #flower morphology in Turnera subulata

New #AJB research by Paige Henning, Benjamin Minkoff & Michael Sussman

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany
Flower from the S-morph of Turnera subulata (Passifloraceae).
November 18, 2024 at 10:32 PM
scottzona.bsky.social
I’ve spent the week talking about Passiflora & haven’t mentioned the corona! It’s the whorl of spikey-looking bits in this flower of P. jussieui. Like the coronas of daffodils (Narcissus spp), it is an outgrowth of the perianth & presumably attractive to pollinators. #Passifloraceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Photo of leaves of a vine and a single flower. The flower has a corona of long, filamentous segments that are reddish. Photo by Scott Zona CCBYNC2.
August 9, 2025 at 11:53 AM
trailtotoday.bsky.social
Passion Flower
Such an interesting structure!
#ColorADay #RedWed
#Macro #BloomScrolling #OnlyBeautifulThings
#EastCoastKin #MobilePhotography #NaturePhotography #NYBG
macro of the top of a Vine-leaved passion flower, Passiflora vitifolia, Passifloraceae, Nicaragua to Ecuador, Colombia & Peru, taken in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, NYBG, Bronx a red passion flower is surrounded by its vines
February 18, 2026 at 11:45 AM
scottzona.bsky.social
Passiflora is a genus rich in extra-floral nectaries. Here are the unmissable EFNs on the petiole of Passiflora ligularis, a species from South America. #Passifloraceae #EFN #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Photo of a leafy shoot. The petiole of one leaf is visible and sports a row of several, large, stalked nectaries along its adaxial side. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.
March 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
scottzona.bsky.social
This zebra longwing butterfly (Heliconius charithonia) lays eggs on a Passiflora sp (📷: Adam Skowronski CCBYND2). The caterpillars sequester cyanogenic compounds & use them for their own defense. Adults can make cyanogenic glycosides. #HCN #Passifloraceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Close-up photo of the zebra longwing, which has long black wings with creamy stripes. The butterfly is perched on the young shoot of a Passiflora and is laying eggs.
August 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
scottzona.bsky.social
Piriqueta cistoides subsp. caroliniana has cyanogenic leaves & flowers. The flowers last only 1 day, so putting cyanogenic glycosides in their tissues seems wasteful, especially when N is usually limiting. Even fallen flowers are HCN+. ☠️ #HCN #Passifloraceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Photo of a small herbaceous plant in situ bearing bright yellow flowers. Photo by Scott Zona CCBYNC2.
August 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
roelkruize.bsky.social
. . The Flowers of Romance
(Public Image Ltd) 
-Passifloraceae
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#passiebloem #flowers #roofterrace #courtyard
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May 15, 2026 at 9:20 AM
plazi-species.bsky.social
#NewSpecies
Passiflora cana
A newly discovered #passifloraceae from #peru!

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/03C687FC-...
Publication: doi.org/10.11646/phy...
#Phytotaxa #PassifloraCana

#FAIRdata
#biology #ecology #taxonomy #nature #biodiversity #conservation #botany #wildflowers #flowers #plants
Passiflora cana, habit, leaves with flower.
October 24, 2025 at 9:22 AM
scottzona.bsky.social
When leaves are liabilities… plants can lose their leaves (through evolution) and shift their photosynthesis to their stems. Tiny, fugacious leaves are present on the green, thorny stems of Adenia globosa, but the leaves will be lost in the first hint of drought. #Passifloraceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Photo of a tangled mass of thorny stems. Tiny, vestigial leaves are visible subtending the thorns. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.
June 4, 2025 at 10:30 AM
scottzona.bsky.social
Passiflora is a genus of over 600 spp., 95% of which are native to the Americas (5% Australasia). They are mostly lianas with tendrils (which are modified shoots); leaves have glands; flowers have a stalked stamens + ovary (androgynophore). This is P. bahamensis. #Passifloraceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Close-up photo of a single flower. The sepals and petals are white. The large, prominent corona is pale lavender, and the five anthers and three stigmas are held on an androgynophore. Photo by Scott Zona CCBYNC2.
August 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
gardenopus.bsky.social
ALMOST NATIVE - to Chicagoland. Passiflora incarnata (Passion Flower/Fruit, Maypop) native to 2 dozen counties Southern third of Illinois, more in Missouri, & even closer yet in North Central Indiana - close enough for almost.😄 A great year, the more heat we have the more fruit.😋 🌱Passifloraceae
August 22, 2024 at 10:30 PM
bionomia.net
Auguste François Marie Glaziou https://bionomia.net/Q440696 collected the holotype PASSIFLORACEAE: Turnera crulsii Urb. in Brazil https://gbif.org/occurrence/1211546772 #TypeSpecimenToday
Image of the holotype PASSIFLORACEAE: Turnera crulsii Urb.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
September 19, 2026 at 8:30 AM
scottzona.bsky.social
Popillia japonica (Japanese Beetle) feeds with impunity on Passiflora incarnata. The beetle either lacks a glucosidase digestive enzyme OR sequesters the glycoside to prevent HCN release. Just shows you that no plant defense is perfect! ☠️ #HCN #Passifloraceae #Coleoptera #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Photo of three Japanese beetles on the leaves of Passiflora incarnata. The leaves show extensive evidence of herbivory. Photo by Scott Zona CCBYNC2.
August 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
scottzona.bsky.social
Passiflora suberosa exhibits heteroblasty (different-shaped leaves on the same plant). The 2nd photo shows leaves from a single plant. It’s part of the evolutionary arms race with butterflies. It may prevent gravid female butterflies from forming a search image. #Passifloraceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Photo of a hand cradling a shoot of the vine. Some leaves are elliptical, while others are 3-lobed. Photo by Scott Zona CCBYNC2. Photo of a selection of isolated leaves. Some leaves are entire, some are lobed. Some leaves are large, some are small and narrow. Photo by Scott Zona CCBYNC2.
August 5, 2025 at 11:00 AM