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Passiflora suberosa
Passiflora suberosa
- Botanic Family
- Passifloraceae
- Author
- Linnaeus
Common Names
- Cork-barked Passion Flower
- Pintero
- Huero de Gallo
- Noxbe Cimarron
- Pap Bush
- Meloncillo
- Huehue haole (Hawaiian)
- Jhumko (India)
- Xi zhu xi fan lian (Pinyin)
- Parcha Yedra
- Indigo Berry
- Ink Berry
- Corky Passionflower
- Corkystem Passionflower
- Devil's Pumpkin
- Wild Passionfruit
- Wild Water-lemon
- Morila (Dominican Republic)
Geographical Habitats
- Tropical America to S. America
- West Indies
- New Guinea
- New Caledonia
- Fiji
- Samoa
- Galapagos Is.
- Mexico
- Honduras
- Peru
- Argentina
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Minas Gerais
- Paraná
- Rio de Janeiro
- Rio Grande do Sul
- São Paulo - Brazil
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Bermuda
- Cayman Islands
- Cuba
- Curacao
- Hispaniola
- Jamaica
- Leeward Islands
- Antilles
- Puerto Rico
- Tobago
- Windward Islands
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Curacao
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Guatemala
- Honduras
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Suriname
- Florida
- Texas
- Virginia
- Virgin Islands - USA
- Venezuela
- Antilles
Natural Habitats
- Forest
- cloud forest
- shrublands
- coastal
- thicket
- disturbed areas
- coastal forest
- woodland
- montane shrubland
Flowering Times
- Sep-Nov May All year (Puerto Rico)
Fruiting Times
- Sep-Nov All year (Puerto Rico)
Herbaceous slender simple-tendril glabrous or pubescent climbing vine with corky bark. Entire to 3-lobed variable , pubescent, glabrous or puberulent leaves to 150mm long. Axillary solitary or paired 30mm diameter green-yellow to ivory flowers with purple centres, setaceous bracts, calyx greenish to 25mm across, sepals green outside, whitish or light green inside to 13mm long, petals absent, mulberry coloured filaments yellow from middle to tip in 2 series, outer series to 7mm, inner series green to 1mm. 20mm diameter glabrous dark purple-blue fruits.
Further References
- E & M 1970
- Menninger 1970
- Jones & Gray 1977
- Huxley 1992
- Vanderplank 1996
- FOH
- net
- Neotrop
- FB
- FOC
- NYBG
- The Plant List 2
- VOPR
- Smithsonian
- FOSEUS
- FOPE
- SAFIO
- Standley