Passiflora Incarnata (wild passion-flower)

The wild passion-flower, passion vine, or maypop (Passiflora incarnata) climbs about 3 to 9 meters high and has pink or white flowers about 4 to 7.5 cm. across and a yellow, berrylike, edible fruit about 5 cm long.
The highly perfumed passion fruits are eaten as delicate dessert fruit.
The passion flower blossom is often used to symbolize events in the last hours of the life of Christ, the Passion of Christ, hence the name of the flower. Thus, the corona represents the crown of thorns; the styles represent the nails used in the Crucifixion; the stamens represent the five wounds; and the five sepals and five petals represent 10 of the apostles, excluding Judas, who betrayed Jesus, and St. Peter, who denied him three times on the night of his trial.
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