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Passiflora coccinea

Botanic Family

Passifloraceae

Author

Aublet

Common Names

• Red Passion Flower
• Red Granadilla
• Snekie Marcoesa
• Marudi-Oura
• Monkey Guzzle
• Scarlet Passionflower
• Thome Assu
• Passion Flower (Cr)

Geographical Habitats

• Guianas
• S. Venezuela
• Peru
• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Honduras
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• Suriname
• Guyana

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• streamside

Flowering Times

• Mid-Summer to Autumn Jun-Nov (Guyana)

Fruiting Times

• Oct
• Nov

Rufo-puberulent or rufo-tomentose throughout, simple tendrils. Glabrous coarsely toothed leaves to 140mm x 70mm, glabrous or sparingly pubescent above & tomentose beneath. Scarlet-red flowers with white, pink & purple filaments, crenate serrate reddish coriaceous bracts to 60mm x 35mm, calyx tube to 20mm long, sepals to 50mm long, 3 series of corona filaments, 2 outer series 10mm long, purple above, pink or white below, inner series white. Fruit round, orange or yellow mottled green to 50mm diameter.

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Herklots 1976
• Beckett 1990
• Huxley 1992
• Nicholls 1995
• Vanderplank 1996
• RHS A-Z
• Mobot
• NHN
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• FOPE