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Passiflora auriculata

Botanic Family

Passifloraceae

Author

H.B.Kunth

Propagation

C.

Common Names

• Sasoboro
• Passion Flower (Cr)
• Granadilla (Colombia)
• Cocorilla de Mico (Colombia)

Geographical Habitats

• Antilles
• Bolivia
• Acre
• Amazonas
• Maranhão
• Mato Grosso
• Pará
• Roraima - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Dominican Republic
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• St. Vincent
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Forests
• coastal
• secondary vegetation
• riverside
• thickets

Flowering Times

• Feb-Aug
• Jan (Bol.)

Fruiting Times

• Feb-Aug

Liana with simple axillary tendrils, glabrous or finely pubescent stems to 5m. Nearly glabrous 3-lobed or entire leaves to 150mm x 100mm. Axillary inflorescence, 25mm wide white or greenish-yellow flowers with bracts, purple tinge at base of filaments, yellowish green or pale green sepals & white petals, 2 ranks of corona filaments, outer filaments yellow-green, purple at base, inner filaments white. Berry to 20mm diameter, pale yellow turning black with persistent calyx.

Further References

• Vanderplank 1996
• Mobot
• NHN
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• NYBG
• Botanicus
• FOPE
• Standley
• HUA
• Academia