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Passiflora rubra

Botanic Family

Passifloraceae

Author

Linnaeus

Propagation

C.L.S.

Common Names

• Red-fruited Passion Flower
• Liane Couleuvre
• Bull Hoof
• Dutchman's Laudanum
• Pasionaria de Cerca
• Parcha Colorada
• Flor de Pasión
• Bat Wings
• Red Passionfruit
• Pomme de Liane Zombie
• Trois Quarts

Geographical Habitats

• Colombia
• Venezuela
• Peru
• Bolivia
• Ceará
• Minas Gerais
• Pernambuco
• Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
• West Indies
• Ecuador
• Guyana
• Caribbean
• Bahamas
• Cuba
• Hispaniola
• Jamaica
• Leeward islands
• Puerto Rico
• Trinidad
• Virgin Islands - USA
• Windward islands
• French Guiana
• Honduras
• Suriname
• Mexico
• Antilles

Natural Habitats

• Cloud forest
• disturbed areas
• shrubland
• forest.

Flowering Times

• Apr
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov All year (Puerto Rico)

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec All year (Puerto Rico)

Herbaceous puberulent simple-tendril climber with grey-pubescent or reddish-hairy stems. Pubescent bilobed leaves occasionally trilobate, awn in recess between lobes, to 110mm x 100mm. Axillary solitary or paired 50mm wide ivory flowers with red-purple or lavender small filaments, long filaments, pilose sepals reddish or green outside, white inside to 25mm long, whitish petals to 15mm long, one ranks of pink to purple filaments to 13mm long, green or white above. Pilose 50mm 10-angled pink or red fruits with longitudinal white lines.

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Huxley 1992
• Vanderplank 1996
• P & R 1997
• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• VOPR
• Botanicus
• Smithsonian
• FOPE