Passion Fruit (Lilikoi)
Passiflora edulis
About Passion Fruit (Lilikoi)
Passion Fruit (Lilikoi) (Passiflora edulis) is a herb used in the Hawaiian & Polynesian Medicine tradition to help with Anxiety, Insomnia, High Blood Pressure, and Digestive Issues. The fruit / berries are the part traditionally used, taken internally.
Botanical background
Passiflora edulis, commonly known as passion fruit, is a vine species of passion flower native to southern Brazil through Paraguay and northern Argentina. It is cultivated commercially in tropical and subtropical areas for its sweet, seedy fruit. The fruit is a pepo, a type of berry, round to oval, either yellow or dark purple at maturity, with a soft to firm, juicy interior filled with numerous seeds. The fruit is both eaten and juiced, the juice...
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist