Definitions
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- noun botany Any of the
genus Passiflora ofpassionflowers .
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Examples
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I may get lucky and sprout the next big thing in passiflora hybrids.
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I may get lucky and sprout the next big thing in passiflora hybrids.
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And I'll trade a lot of the same with other passiflora enthusiasts.
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And I'll trade a lot of the same with other passiflora enthusiasts.
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Once The Wife got home and we reviewed her shots they're here if you're curious I potted up some passion vines I'd gotten in trade, then cleared away a heck of a lot of passiflora vines from the front of the house that'd been denuded of vegetation by voracious caterpillars.
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Passiflora tenuiloba is a small, unassuming passiflora native to south and west Texas.
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I've got a decent collection of passiflora, and there's usually a run of a few weeks where people go simply nuts bidding on plants, along with a few weeks on either side of that where bidding isn't fevered, but still steady.
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And since passiflora have evolved to synthesize their own special brand of natural cyanide as a defense mechanism to keep from getting eaten the caterpillars have evolved to incorporate this cyanide into their own defense mechanisms.
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One of the side effects of having an obsession with passiflora is that the plants serve as the sole food source for helliconia butterflies hey!
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Passiflora tenuiloba is a small, unassuming passiflora native to south and west Texas.
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