The West discovered passion flowers in the 1600s as Spanish missionaries traveled in Peru . The priests line up that the passion flower ’s component could serve as an example of the excruciation or " passion " of Jesus . Seeing the excruciation chronicle in the parts of the rage flower gave the flower its name . Today , the flower has traveled beyond Latin America , and the vine is farm in quick climates for the knockout of the flower . About 400 species exist . One of them , Passiflora edulis flavicarpa , provides passion fruit succus .
Pistil
The pistil is the female part of plant , consisting of an ovary , style and mark . The stigma sits at the top , there to charm pollen , which contains spermatozoan . The style leads from the stigma to the ovary , where egg - containing ovule are turn up . Sperm locomote the style to the bulb - shaped ovary and fuse with the eggs to finally become semen . Passion bloom have three pistils .
The ovary of the rage efflorescence swells and ripens into a yellow fruit that ’s comestible and about the size of a gamboge . Fruits vary in gustation from sweet to sour . Contained within the yield are the seeds for the next generation of vines .
Passion flower pistils were likened to the nails used in the excruciation .
Stamen
stamen are the male parts of flowers . When a works possess both male and female parts , as the passion blossom does , it is called a " perfect " flower . Additionally , with both manlike and female parts , the rage flower is hermaphrodite and epicene .
Stamens are write of filaments that are topped by anther , which acquire pollen . Passion of Christ blossom have five stamens , say by the missional priests to symbolize the wounds of Jesus .
Corona
Passion flower have filaments beam out from the center between the whorls of stamens and pistils and the group of petal and sepals . The filaments are often one color at the radix , switch to another at the tips . This striking feature of rage flowers , the corona , was thought of by the priests as the crown of pricker Jesus wore at his decease .
Perianth
Beneath the St. Elmo’s fire of the mania blossom is the perigonium , composed of both sepals and petal together . Sepals are protective , leafage - like structures which , on the passion bloom , search almost precisely like the flower petal .
The sepals and petals are laid out like rung at the bottom of the blossom , five sepals alternating with five petals . The ten together were see by the priests as symbolizing apostle .
sepal and flower petal are thought of as accessory parts as opposed to the stamen and pistils , which are necessary for the industrial plant to produce .
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