{"id":251,"date":"2005-10-03T09:38:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-03T16:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/fire\/2005\/10\/03\/mexican-passionflower\/"},"modified":"2006-10-24T23:22:26","modified_gmt":"2006-10-25T06:22:26","slug":"mexican-passionflower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2005\/10\/03\/mexican-passionflower\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican Passionflower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/1855\/passiflora-mexicana-mexican-passionflower\/\">Mexican Passionflowers (Passiflora mexicana)<\/a> are beautiful, tropical-looking, native vines with bizarre flowers that almost look like something from an alien planet.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2005\/October\/Passiflora-mexicana.jpg\" alt=\"Mexican Passionflower (Passiflora mexicana)\" title=\"Mexican Passionflower (Passiflora mexicana)\" width=\"480\" height=\"379\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mexican Passionflower&#8217;s green flowers have 5 large, green sepals, yellows centers, and rings of fleshy filaments that start out a dull red color, but later fade to violet.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2005\/October\/Passiflora-mexicana-flower.jpg\" alt=\"A faded Mexican Passionflower (Passiflora mexicana) flower\" title=\"A faded Mexican Passionflower (Passiflora mexicana) flower\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These flowers not only look strange, they smell strange as well. Mexican Passionflower flowers smell like mothballs, and the moist, shady gully in Tucson where I found several of these vines flowering was filled with their weirdly non-flowerlike, chemical odor. Mexican Passionflowers normally bloom anytime from July to September.<\/p>\n<p>Even when not in bloom, Mexican Passionflower vines can be identified by their distinctive, round-tipped, bilobed leaves.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2005\/October\/Passiflora-mexicana-leaves.jpg\" alt=\"Mexican Passionflower (Passiflora mexicana) leaves\" title=\"Mexican Passionflower (Passiflora mexicana) leaves\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Despite the smell of their flowers, Mexican Passionflower vines are not poisonous and have been used effectively in herbal medicine as a gentle, natural sedative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexican Passionflowers (Passiflora mexicana) are beautiful, tropical-looking, native vines with bizarre flowers that almost look like something from an alien planet. Mexican Passionflower&#8217;s green flowers have 5 large, green sepals, yellows centers, and rings of fleshy filaments that start out a dull red color, but later fade to violet. These flowers not only look strange,&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2005\/10\/03\/mexican-passionflower\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More &rarr; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona-wild-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}