Image: Passiflora incarnata (Maypop) Identification Guide
Published: October 24, 2026 at 6:18:25 PM UTC
Detailed labeled image of Passiflora incarnata, or maypop, highlighting its three-lobed leaves, coiling tendrils, fringed purple flower, buds, and oval green fruit.
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Image description
A landscape-oriented botanical identification image shows a Passiflora incarnata vine, commonly labeled as maypop, growing outdoors around a weathered vertical wooden support. The plant fills most of the frame with numerous medium- to dark-green leaves, twisting stems, curling tendrils, flower buds, a fully open passionflower, and green oval fruits. The central focal point is a large open flower positioned slightly left of center. It has pale lavender to whitish petals and sepals surrounding a dense circular corona of thin, fringed filaments patterned in purple, violet, and white. Pale green and yellow reproductive structures rise prominently from the center of the flower. A white rectangular callout labeled "fringed flower corona" points toward the filamentous ring around the blossom. On the left side, a large green leaf with three distinct lobes and clearly visible branching veins is identified by a white callout reading "3-lobed leaves." Similar lobed leaves appear throughout the lower and left portions of the image. Near the upper center-right, an elongated unopened green flower bud with overlapping pointed bracts is labeled "flower bud." Additional buds are visible nearby, including one to the right of the open flower with faint purple coloration showing between green outer parts. On the right side, several thin green tendrils form tight spirals and loops; two arrows from a white label reading "coiling tendrils" indicate these structures. In the lower right-center, a hanging green oval fruit with a lightly speckled surface and leafy structures at its attachment point is labeled "oval fruit." A second similar fruit is visible farther back toward the lower-right edge. The vine's stems are slender and partly green to purplish-brown, winding through the foliage and around the wooden support. At the top left, a large pale rectangular title label reads "Passiflora incarnata (Maypop)" in black serif text, with the scientific name styled prominently. The callout labels use black text on light cream or white rectangular boxes with thin directional arrows. The foreground plant is sharply detailed, while the background is softly out of focus. Behind the vine are green vegetation, a sunlit open field or meadow, a horizontal pale-blue or gray-blue area that appears to be water, and a distant tree-covered ridge or treeline beneath a bright sky. The exact nature of the distant water-like feature cannot be confirmed from the image alone. Lighting is natural daylight, with realistic green, lavender, purple, cream, brown, and blue tones. No people, commercial logos, or brand markings are visible.
The image is related to: Growing Passionflower: A Practical Home Garden Guide