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Passiflora serratodigitata
Passiflora serratodigitata
- Botanic Family
- Passifloraceae
- Author
- Linnaeus
Common Names
- Munchi (Achual Jivaro)
- Tagua-tagua
- Fueille Carapate
Geographical Habitats
- West Indies
- Guyana
- Antilles
- Amazonas
- Pará - Brazil
- Bolivia
- Dominican Republic
- Peru
- Colombia
- Caribbean
- Ecuador
- French Guiana
- Guyana
- Leeward Islands
- Panama
- Peru
- Puerto Rico
- Suriname
- Tobago & Trinidad
- Windward Islands
Natural Habitats
- Forest
- forest edge
- disturbed areas
- seasonally inundated areas
- gallery forest
- lowland forest
- shrubland
Flowering Times
- Jun
- Jul Jun-Sep (Puerto Rico)
Fruiting Times
- Feb
- Apr
- Jun
- Oct
- Dec Aug-Feb (Puerto Rico)
Herbaceous slightly woody glabrous simple-tendril twiner with palmately 5-7-lobed glabrous serrulate leaves to 150mm x 180mm. Solitary axillary scented 90mm white, pale pink flowers with blue tinge and banded blue, white and purple filaments, bracts to 50mm long, sepals greenish-yellow with pink dots to 30mm x 25mm, white petals 30mm x 10mm, violet filaments 13mm long & 50mm in several series, outer filaments banded blue, white & purple. Yellow berry to 50mm diameter with edible pulp.
Further References
- Vanderplank 1996
- net
- Mobot
- FB
- The Plant List 2
- VOPR
- Botanicus
- Smithsonian
- FOPE
- SAFIO