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Passiflora caerulea

Botanic Family

Passifloraceae

Author

Linnaeus

Conservation Status

Least concern

Common Names

• Common Passion Flower
• Blue Passion Flower
• Hardy Passion Flower
• Burucuya
• Viricuja
• Murucuja
• Blue Crown Passionflower
• Xi fan lian (Pinyin)
• Pasionaria
• Flor de la Pasión
• Granadilla

Geographical Habitats

• Argentina
• Bolivia
• Bermuda
• Ceará
• Minas Gerais
• Paraná
• Rio Grande do Sul
• Santa Catarina
• São Paulo - Brazil
• Chile
• Ecuador
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Uruguay

Natural Habitats

• Hedges
• fence rows

Flowering Times

• All year

Fruiting Times

• All year

Evergreen glabrous herbaceous tendril vine with 3-9 lobed glabrous leaves, lobes to 100mm long. Cymes of slightly fragrant 100mm greenish-white or purple-blue & white flowers 100mm wide with bracts to 25mm long, filaments to 3-4 series, outer 2 series to 15mm, dark purple at base, white in middle, blue at tip, inner 2 to 2mm, light green at base, white at tips. Fruit to 60mm long turning yellow-orange.

Further References

• Bean 1950
• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Herklots 1976
• Krussmann 1976
• van der Spuy 1976
• Beckett 1990
• Huxley 1992
• Nicholls 1995
• Vanderplank 1996
• P & R 1997
• FONZ
• RHS A-Z
• GWC 1997
• FB
• FOC
• The Plant List 2
• FOPE
• Academia