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Passiflora sexflora

Botanic Family

Passifloraceae

Author

Jussieu

Common Names

• Granada
• Pasionaria de Cerca

Geographical Habitats

• Florida - U.S.A.
• Mexico
• Guatemala
• Panama
• Costa Rica
• Colombia
• Cuba
• Hispaniola
• Belize
• El Salvador
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Lesser Antilles
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Puerto Rico
• Ecuador

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• cloud forest
• wasteland

Flowering Times

• All year Sep-May (Puerto Rico)

Fruiting Times

• All Year Sep-May (Puerto Rico)

Herbaceous simple-tendril vine with bilobate to trilobate pubescent leaves, whole plant clothed with soft velvety down. Axillary cymes of 40mm purple & white flowers, pinnatisect hispid bracts, yellowish-green sepals to 15mm long, whitish petals 9mm x 2mm, white & mulberry banded filaments to 8mm long, with 10mm purple-black pubescent fruits,

Further References

• Vanderplank 1996
• Mobot
• The Plant List 2
• NYBG
• VOPR
• Botanicus
• Standley