| Site: Walker County, Ga Date: 2009-June-23 | Photographer: Gerald C Williamson |
| Purple Passion Flower plant showing blossom and trident-shaped leaf: deeply palmate with three lobes. | |
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| Site: Walker County, Ga Date: 2009-June-23 | Photographer: Gerald C Williamson |
| aka Maypop. According to unconfirmed information on Wikipedia, the Cherokees called this Ocoee and therefore the Ocoee River is named after this plant, which is the Tennessee State wildflower. Walker County, Ga - June 23, 2009 | |
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| Site: Walker County, Ga Date: 2009-June-23 | Photographer: Gerald C Williamson |
| Stamens and anthers make for an interesting superstructure above the blossom. According to 16th-century Spanish missionaries, the stigmata represented the three nails with which Christ was fastened to the cross, and the 5 anthers represent the 5 wounds he received in his flesh at the crucifixion. | |
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| Site: Walker County, Ga Date: 2009-June-29 | Photographer: Gerald C Williamson |
| Five petals and five sepals. The sepals in Passiflora incarnata are green underneath and white on top. The petals are white. | |
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| Site: Walker County, Ga Date: 2009-June-29 | Photographer: Gerald C Williamson |
| Passiflora incarnata leaves are palmate, deeply lobed with three lobes. The shape of a lobe was used by early Spanish missionaries to indicate the shape of the spear-tip which pierced Christ's side at the crucifixion, the Passion of Christ, from which the Passionflower gets its name. | |
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| Site: Walker County, Ga Date: 2009-June-29 | Photographer: Gerald C Williamson |
| Fruit of Passiflora incarnata beginning to form; I believe it to be this fruit that gives Passionflower the alternate common name of Maypop. | |
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| Site: Robertson County, TN Date: 2009-October-21 | Photographer: Gerald C Williamson |
| Passionfruit from Passiflora incarnata is edible. When properly ripe, the seeds are encompassed in a slimy membranes which has a tart-sweet taste. It can be a bit of work to get the tasty slime off of the crunchy seeds, but worth a try at least once. The fruit is ripe when it is slightly softened. | |
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| Site: Reflection Riding, Hamilton County, TN Date: 2010-August-28 | Photographer: Gerald C Williamson
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| Site: Walker County, Ga Date: 2009-June-29 | Photographer: Gerald C Williamson |
| Passionflower tendril the vine uses to climb on other plants | |
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| Site: Walker County, Ga Date: 2009-June-29 | Photographer: Gerald C Williamson |
| Passionflower (Passiflora incarnata) vine climbing a ditch bank. | |
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