Passion fruit, original name: egg fruit, alias: pomegranate, purple fruit passion fruit, Latin name: Passiflora edulis Sims Passifloraceae, passion flower genus herbaceous vines, stems with fine stripes, glabrous. Leaves papery, middle lobe ovate, lateral lobes ovate-oblong, lobe margins with recurved glandular cusp serrulate, outside apically with 1 angular appendage; inner corona non-fringed, apically entire or irregularly lacerate, yellowish green; ovary obovoid, compressed rod-shaped, stigma reniform. Berry ovoid, glabrous, purple when ripe; seeds numerous, ovate. Native to the Greater and Lesser Antilles, now widely planted in tropical and subtropical areas. The fruit can be eaten raw or used as a vegetable or fodder. The pulp is juicy, and can be made into a fragrant and delicious drink by adding calcium bicarbonate and sugar. It is used in medicine for its euphoric and strengthening effects.