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Passiflora edulis

Botanic Family

Passifloraceae

Author

Sims

Common Names

• Purple Granadilla
• Maracujá
• Parchita
• Granadilla
• Purple Passion Fruit
• Passion Fruit
• Parche
• Maracujá de Doce
• Maracuja Peroba
• Lilikoi
• Grenadille
• Couzou
• Linmangkon
• Parcha Amarilla
• Aul Aanp (Nepali)
• Black Passion Fruit
• Purple Water Lemon
• Liliko'i (Hawaiian)
• Passion Flower (Cr)
• Passion-fruit Vine
• Granadilla Morada
• Ji dan guo (Pinyin)
• Maypops
• May Apple
• Apricot Vine
• Wild Passion Flower
• Maracock
• Granadilla
• Parcha
• Water Lemon
• Qarandila
• Yellow Passion Fruit
• Edible Passion Flower
• Pin-hme (Myanmar)
• Old Field Apricot (USA)
• Holy-trinity Flower (USA)
• Molly-pop (USA)
• Maycock (USA)
• White Sarsaparilla (USA)
• Lokoyovo (Aizo)
• Maracuya (Ecuador)

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Alagoas
• Amazonas
• Bahia
• Minas Gerais
• Pará
• Paraná
• Rio de Janeiro
• Rio Grande do Sul
• Santa Catarina
• São Paulo - Brazil
• Colombia
• Cuba
• Dominican Republic
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• N. Argentina
• Costa Rica
• Trinidad
• Venezuela
• Windward Islands
• Florida
• Missouri
• Virginia - U.S.A.

Natural Habitats

• Scrubland
• thickets.

Flowering Times

• Summer-autumn

Fruiting Times

Vigorous evergreen glabrous or pubescent woody herbaceous simple-tendril climbing or trailing vine, stems to 25m. 3-5 palmately lobed serrated glabrous leaves to 120mm long. Cymes with 3 bracts to 5mm long of or solitary scented 90mm diameter white flowers tinged purple with purple filaments tipped white, sepals to 30mm long, green outside lavender purple inside, pale lavender petals, filaments in 5 series, outer 2. 25mm long, base pale green middle purple, tip white, inner 2 or 3 to 3mm green & purple. 100mm glabrous fragrant fruit green-yellow to purple

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Herklots 1976
• Krussmann 1976
• van der Spuy 1976
• Jones & Gray 1977
• Huxley 1992
• Nicholls 1995
• Vanderplank 1996
• P & R 1997
• Manandhar 2002
• FONZ
• RHS A-Z
• Mobot
• net
• Llamas 2003
• Bodkin
• FB
• FOC
• The Plant List 2
• VOPR
• USNH
• Botanicus
• FOSEUS
• Traditional Vegetables in Benin
• Mendoza