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Passiflora adenopoda

Botanic Family

Passifloraceae

Author

de Candolle

Common Names

• Granadilla de Monte (Costa Rica
• Guatemala
• Nicaragua)
• Comida de Culebra
• xian bing xi fan lian (Pinyin)
• Pococa (Costa Rica)
• Corona de Jesús (Mexico)
• Granada Cimarrona (Mexico)
• Granadilla (Guatemala)
• Gulupa (Colombia)
• Calala (Nicaragua)
• Estococa or Granadilla de Monte or Ococa or Pococa or Tococa (Costa Rica)

Geographical Habitats

• Costa Rica
• E. Peru
• Veracruz - Mexico
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Forests
• woodland
• lower montane areas
• secondary vegetation
• thickets
• disturbed vegetation

Flowering Times

• All year (Mexico) Jul-Jan (Cost Rica)

Fruiting Times

• All year (Mexico) Feb
• May & Aug-Nov (Costa Rica)

Herbaceous vine with angular glabrate or hispid stems to 15m, woody at base. Glabrous or hispid 3-7 lobed leaves somewhat serrate to 190mm x 240mm. Solitary or paired axillary inflorescence with bracts to 18mm x 15mm, 70mm diameter diameter yellowish or purple & white flowers with 45-63 corona filaments in single series to 20mm long, white & purple banded, calyx to 30mm+, sepals to 40mm x 15mm, white petals to 15mm x 8mm. Purple fruits to 70mm x 54mm.

Further References

• Huxley 1992
• Vanderplank 1996
• Mobot
• FOC
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• FOPE
• Standley
• Academia (John M. MacDougal)
• PCCA