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Passiflora mollissima

Botanic Family

Passifloraceae

Author

(Kunth) L.H. Bailey

Common Names

• Curuba
• Banana Passion Fruit
• Banana Poka
• Soft-leafed Passion Flower
• Granadilla Cimarrona
• Curuba
• Tintin
• Tumbo
• Trompos
• Banana Granadilla

Geographical Habitats

• W. Venezuela
• Colombia
• SE. Peru
• W. Bolivia
• Ecuador

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• riverside
• shrublands.

Flowering Times

• All Year

Fruiting Times

• All Year

Vigorous evergreen woody tendril vine with densely yellow-villous stems. 3-lobed sharply toothed leaves 100mm x 120mm, tomentum beneath to pubescent above. 90mm pink flowers with bracts to 30mm long, glabrous calyx tube to 80mm long, olive-green often tinged red without, sepals to 35mm long, pink petals, corona a purple band. Pubescent 120mm longx 35mm yellow fruits.

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
• FONZ
• FOH
• RHS A-Z
• Mobot
• Neotrop
• Bodkin
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• FOPE