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Passiflora foetida

Botanic Family
Passifloraceae
Author
Linnaeus

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Herbaceous annual or perennial slightly woody villous simple-tendril vine. Usually trilobate pubescent denticulate leaves to 100mm long with hairy margins. Axillary single, paired or threes of 50mm wide whitish to pinkish flowers with 3 bracts 2-4X pinnately divided, or pink to purple flowers with purple & blue banded filaments, sepals to 20mm long, corona filaments in several series, to 10mm long, white or banded white & purple. 37mm yellow, pink, orange, red or scarlet berries, lace-like pinnatifid bract to 30mm long, sepals green, whitish on inner surface to 25mm long, petals white to 25mm long with purple markings, foul-smelling viscid glandular hairs with strong disagreeable odour. Orange inflated berry to 60mm long with persistent bract.

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