| Scientific Name: | Gynura aurantiaca |
| Common Name: | purple passion plant |
| Family Name: | Asteraceae |
| Origin: | S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 10: (-1 to 4 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Indoor foliage plant |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Pendulous |
| Form: | Irregular |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Hanging basket, Indoor plant |
| Exposure: | Filtered shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pubescent, Tomentose, Lanceolate, Ovate, Pinnately lobed |
| Flowers: | Head (capitulum), Orange, Yellow |
| Fruit: | Cypsela (achene + calyx), White |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Whole plant an iridescent; velvety sheen; stems hairy; leaves alternate, most ovate-lanceolate, 6-10(-20)cm long x 3-5(cm wide, margin irregularly dentate, densely covered with reddish-purple hairs. | |