Passion fruit/ passiflora edulis is a vine species of passion flower that is native to brazil, paraguay and northern argentina. its common names include passion fruit or passionfruit (english), granadilla (spanish), granadille (french), maracujá (portuguese) and lilikoʻi(hawaiian).

It is cultivated commercially in tropical and subtropical areas for its sweet, seedy fruit. the passion fruit is a pepo, a type of berry, round to oval, either yellow or dark purple at maturity, with a soft to firm, juicy interior filled with numerous seeds. the fruit is both eaten and juiced; passion fruit juice is often added to other fruit juices to enhance aroma.