Although mainly cultivated for their delicious, edible fruits, or for the beauty of their flowers, the various species of Passiflora also include some with very fragrant flowers. The genus Passiflora probably originated in South or Central America, but many species are now cultivated in tropical countries all over the world. Let it be said at once that the perfume produced from these flowers in Bermuda, amount to a mere fraction of the various Bermuda produced perfumes.