Passionflower
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| - | The Passion Flower can be used for eating and for medical related purposes. The succulent fruit and flowers can be eaten with out being cooked, or cooked in sweets such as jellies or jams. The young leaves can be cooked and used as seasonings or put into salads. It has scientifically been proven that the medicine can be formed from this plant's herbs. Recently, studies have shown that the flavonoids in the Passion Flower are the main reason that this flower causes a relaxing and antianxiety effect. Some of the Passion Flowers put together Apigenin, Kaempferol, Quercetin, and Luteolin. These medicines are being examined and showing promising chances in being able to fight Cancer, Parkinson's Disease, Leukemia, HIV, and a few more. The stems and leaves are used as antispasmodic, astringent, diaphoretic, hypnotic, narcotic, sedative, vasodilator and are also used to calm and quiet the complaints of women. The Passion Flower also is a substitute for insomnia, neuralgia, irritable bowel syndrome, nervous tension, irritability, premenstrual tension and vaginal discharges. | + | The Passion Flower can be used for eating and for medical related purposes. The succulent fruit and flowers can be eaten with out being cooked, or cooked in sweets such as jellies or jams. The young leaves can be cooked and used as seasonings or put into salads. It has scientifically been proven that the medicine can be formed from this plant's herbs. Recently, studies have shown that the flavonoids in the Passion Flower are the main reason that this flower causes a relaxing and antianxiety effect. Some of the Passion Flowers put together Apigenin, Kaempferol, Quercetin, and Luteolin. These medicines are being examined and showing promising chances in being able to fight Cancer, Parkinson's Disease, Leukemia, HIV, and a few more. The stems and leaves are used as antispasmodic, astringent, diaphoretic, hypnotic, narcotic, sedative, vasodilator and are also used to calm and quiet the complaints of women. The Passion Flower also is a substitute for insomnia, neuralgia, irritable bowel syndrome, nervous tension, irritability, premenstrual tension and vaginal discharges. [http://www.altnature.com/gallery/passionflower.htm] |
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Introduction
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Obtain your taxonomy information from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Anatomy
The male stamen is formed by the anther and filament; pollen arises from the anthers. The pollinator puts the pollen in the female stigma. This germinates and then it sends a tube, which carries the male sex germ, down through the style and then to an ovule inside the ovary. Once this occurs, the ovary will then ripen into a yellow lemon-sized fruit that can be eaten; the ovules in the fruit will soon mature into seeds. Mostly all passion flowers have ten whitish petals. After examining each "petal" closely, it becomes apparent that each petal is a bit more scoop-shaped and green-margined than the next. The sepals are the green-margined ones and the flatter, whiter ones are indeed the petals.
All of the parts that are mention in the previous paragraph are placed above the lower section on a unique kind of stalk known as a gynophore. Once the fruit develops, the stalk will still be attached. This method is one way to tell if what you are looking at is a passion flower or just another lemon-shaped, yellow flower.
One of the amazing features in a Passion Flower is the long, skinny items extending out from the bottom of the gynophore. In a few kinds of special flowers a sprout is made on the blossom's lower or middle parts. This is where all the sepals, petals and sexual parts become connected. The outcome of this is usually known as a corona, or "crown." Passion Flower crowns become apparent in a similar way; although, instead of being cup-like, they are all are divided into many hair-like items. The highly divided crowns help with the pollination because they attract the pollinator’s attention to the middle of the flower, where pollination needs to be taken or dispersed. [1]
Reproduction
Ecology
Edible & Medical
The Passion Flower can be used for eating and for medical related purposes. The succulent fruit and flowers can be eaten with out being cooked, or cooked in sweets such as jellies or jams. The young leaves can be cooked and used as seasonings or put into salads. It has scientifically been proven that the medicine can be formed from this plant's herbs. Recently, studies have shown that the flavonoids in the Passion Flower are the main reason that this flower causes a relaxing and antianxiety effect. Some of the Passion Flowers put together Apigenin, Kaempferol, Quercetin, and Luteolin. These medicines are being examined and showing promising chances in being able to fight Cancer, Parkinson's Disease, Leukemia, HIV, and a few more. The stems and leaves are used as antispasmodic, astringent, diaphoretic, hypnotic, narcotic, sedative, vasodilator and are also used to calm and quiet the complaints of women. The Passion Flower also is a substitute for insomnia, neuralgia, irritable bowel syndrome, nervous tension, irritability, premenstrual tension and vaginal discharges. [2]
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References
- Passion Flowers author/publisher unknown, Sep 05 2006
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