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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = Badea/Giant Granadilla
| image = Badea.jpg
| image_width = 250px
| image_caption = Full and longitudinally-cut badeas
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Malpighiales]]
| familia = [[Passifloraceae]]
| genus = ''[[Passiflora]]''
| species = '''''P. quadrangularis'''''
| binomial = ''Passiflora quadrangularis''
| binomial_authority = [[José Jéronimo Triana|Triana]] & Planch
}}
The '''Giant Granadilla''' or '''Badea''' (Spanish: {{IPA|[ba.ˈð̞e.a]}}), ''Passiflora quadrangularis'', is the largest of the passionfruits, plants of the genus ''[[Passiflora]]''. It is a perennial native of tropical [[The Americas|America]], having smooth, cordate, ovate or acuminate leaves; [[Petiole (botany)|petiole]]s bearing from 4 to 6 glands; an [[emetic]] and [[narcotic]] root; scented [[flower]]s; and a large, oblong [[fruit]], containing numerous seeds, imbedded in a subacid edible pulp.
The badea is sometimes grown in [[greenhouse]]s. The fruits of several other species of Passiflora are eaten. ''P. laurifolia'' is the Water lemon, and ''P. maliformis'' the Sweet [[calabash]] of the [[West Indies]].
The fruit [[juice]] of the badea is used as a beverage.
==References==
*{{1911}}
| color = lightgreen
| name = Badea/Giant Granadilla
| image = Badea.jpg
| image_width = 250px
| image_caption = Full and longitudinally-cut badeas
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Malpighiales]]
| familia = [[Passifloraceae]]
| genus = ''[[Passiflora]]''
| species = '''''P. quadrangularis'''''
| binomial = ''Passiflora quadrangularis''
| binomial_authority = [[José Jéronimo Triana|Triana]] & Planch
}}
The '''Giant Granadilla''' or '''Badea''' (Spanish: {{IPA|[ba.ˈð̞e.a]}}), ''Passiflora quadrangularis'', is the largest of the passionfruits, plants of the genus ''[[Passiflora]]''. It is a perennial native of tropical [[The Americas|America]], having smooth, cordate, ovate or acuminate leaves; [[Petiole (botany)|petiole]]s bearing from 4 to 6 glands; an [[emetic]] and [[narcotic]] root; scented [[flower]]s; and a large, oblong [[fruit]], containing numerous seeds, imbedded in a subacid edible pulp.
The badea is sometimes grown in [[greenhouse]]s. The fruits of several other species of Passiflora are eaten. ''P. laurifolia'' is the Water lemon, and ''P. maliformis'' the Sweet [[calabash]] of the [[West Indies]].
The fruit [[juice]] of the badea is used as a beverage.
==References==
*{{1911}}
