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Passion Fruit Names

December 20th, 2009

Passion Fruit Names – What Do People in Other Countries and Other Cultures Call, Passion Fruit?

Passion Fruit Names? The Passion Fruit has many names around the world. Below is just a sampling of some of the names that the Passion Fruit has around the world. If you know of an additional name, please don’t hesitate to contact us or leave a comment below.

  • mburucuyá – Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay
  • maracujá – Brazil and Portugal
  • maracuyá (yellow variety) or gulupa (purple variety) – Columbia
  • maracuyá – Bolivia,Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador, Mexico, Honduras and Peru
  • chinola – Dominican Republic
  • lilikoi – Hawaii
  • markisa – Indonesia
  • sweet cup – Jamaica
  • calala – Nicaragua (a sweet-tasting juice is made when the fruit is cut in half and boiled in water)
  • parcha – Puerto Rico
  • granadilla (purple variety)or granadilla (yellow variety) – South Africa
  • parchita – Venezuela

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Passion Fruit

December 20th, 2009

Passion Fruit, Granadilla, Purple Granadilla

Passion Fruit, Granadilla, Purple Granadilla,
Scientific classification

Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Passifloraceae
Genus: Passiflora
Species: P. edulis
Binomial name: Passiflora edulis

Native from southern Brazil through Paraguay to northern Argentina, the fruit (Passiflora edulis / P. edulis flavicarpa) is used for anxiety, depression and sleep disorders. There are two varieties of the Fruit – one that becomes dark purple in color when it reaches maturity and the other that is yellow at maturity. The fruit is often grown to eat or for its juice.

Yellow Version of the Fruit, or “maracuyá”

Yellow Version of the Fruit

Traditional medicine uses it for urinary tract infections, much like the cranberry. The Vitamin C, potassium and other relaxing agents in this fruit, may help with asthma or spasmodic coughing conditions.

The nutritional benefits of are:

  • Vitamins
  • Minerals
  • Fiber

It can help with:

  • Urinary Tract Infection
  • Anxiety
  • Insomnia
  • Asthma

Studies suggest that the Fruit can fight chronix inflammation, which is increasingly being linked to more diseases.

See common names for the Fruit by going to our Passion Fruit Names webpage.

An excellent source for more information about the passion fruit is on the California Rare Fruit Growers’ website.

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