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Passiflora manicata

Botanic Family

Passifloraceae

Author

(Jussieu) Persoon

Common Names

• Red Passion-flower

Geographical Habitats

• Colombia to N. Peru
• W. Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Disturbed areas
• shrublands.

Flowering Times

• Spring-Summer Jul

Fruiting Times

Evergreen woody tendril liana with angular stems. 3-lobed serrate leaves to 80mm x 90mm, tomentose beneath.Flower bracts to 30mm long, calyx tube to 20mm long green outside. 118mm dia red flowers with blue & white filaments, sepals green & pink tinged without, scarlet within, scarlet petals, blue corona filaments in 3-4 series, 4mm long. Glabrous 60mm long yellow-green fruits.

Edible fruit

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Herklots 1976
• Krussmann 1976
• van der Spuy 1976
• Beckett 1990
• Huxley 1992
• Vanderplank 1996
• FOH
• RHS A-Z
• Mobot
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• FOPE