passion-flower, native

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

n.


Several speciesof the genus Passiflora are so called in Australia;some are indigenous, some naturalised.

1859. H. Kingsley, `Geoffrey Hamlyn,' p. 398:

«The native passion-flower, scarlet and orange, was tangled upwith the common purple sarsaparilla and the English honeysuckleand jessamine.»

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