flor passionis...

...the passion flower as named by Spanish Jesuit priests when colonising South America believing the flower had been created to help them 'save' the American Indians.

Blooming on the vine in our garden with yet another crop promised for late autumn, we  spoon into the increasingly wrinkly fruit for the  treasure of sweet and sour, juicy yellow seeded pulp.
But back to the  priests who used to flower to explain the Passion and Cruxifixion of Christ. According to them it showed the Three Nails, Five Wounds, Crown of Thorns and the Apostles.
Other Spanish explorers named the fruit granadilla meaning little pomegranate.

There will be passionfruit pulp on a pavlova somewhere in the world!