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  • noun botany Any of the genus Passiflora of passionflowers.

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Examples

  • I may get lucky and sprout the next big thing in passiflora hybrids.

    Archive 2010-03-01 2010

  • I may get lucky and sprout the next big thing in passiflora hybrids.

    Jayme Lynn Blaschke's Gibberish 2010

  • And I'll trade a lot of the same with other passiflora enthusiasts.

    Archive 2010-03-01 2010

  • And I'll trade a lot of the same with other passiflora enthusiasts.

    Jayme Lynn Blaschke's Gibberish 2010

  • Once The Wife got home and we reviewed her shots they're here if you're curious I potted up some passion vines I'd gotten in trade, then cleared away a heck of a lot of passiflora vines from the front of the house that'd been denuded of vegetation by voracious caterpillars.

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • Passiflora tenuiloba is a small, unassuming passiflora native to south and west Texas.

    Jayme Lynn Blaschke's Gibberish 2009

  • I've got a decent collection of passiflora, and there's usually a run of a few weeks where people go simply nuts bidding on plants, along with a few weeks on either side of that where bidding isn't fevered, but still steady.

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • And since passiflora have evolved to synthesize their own special brand of natural cyanide as a defense mechanism to keep from getting eaten the caterpillars have evolved to incorporate this cyanide into their own defense mechanisms.

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • One of the side effects of having an obsession with passiflora is that the plants serve as the sole food source for helliconia butterflies hey!

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • Passiflora tenuiloba is a small, unassuming passiflora native to south and west Texas.

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

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