passifloras

The cascarilleros, however, objected that its tufts of canes and passifloras offered no promise for their researches.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various

The palm-trees occupy conspicuous positions amidst skilfully-grouped dracænas, ferns, azaleas, rhododendrons, passifloras, and a myriad of other curious vegetable productions of the equatorial world.

Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Various

In the latter position, suitable plants for drooping would be: tropeolums, (A) passifloras, (A) the single petunias, sweet alyssum, lobelias, verbenas, mesembryanthemums.

Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906

Sitting in the white-paved pergola at Montecito. with overhead a leafy shelter of pink-flowered passifloras, looking out over the little lake, its surface dotted with water-lilies, its banks fringed with drooping shrubs and vines, the hum of the bee and the bird in the air -- I looked down over a wonderful collection of nearly 200 rare palms and listened to the music that floated up from their waving branches like that of a thousand silken-stringed eolian harp; and there came into my mind visions of a people that shall be strong with the strength of great hills, calm with the calm of a fair sea, united as are at last the palm and the pine, mighty with the presence of God.

The California Birthday Book Various