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Passiflora vitifolia

Botanic Family

Passifloraceae

Author

H.B. Kunth

Propagation

C.S.

Common Names

• Vine-leafed Passion Flower
• Guata-guata
• Pasionaria
• Curuvito
• Granadilla
• Scarlet Passion-flower
• Curuba de Monte (Colombia)

Geographical Habitats

• Nicaragua
• Venezuela
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• N. Peru
• Costa Rica
• Panama
• Bolivia
• Acre
• Amazonas
• Minas Gerais - Brazil
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Mexico

Natural Habitats

• Primary forest
• secondary forest
• forest edge
• riverine forest. Open forest & margins
• cloud forest

Flowering Times

• Early Summer to Autumn Feb-May Jul
• Oct
• Nov Dec-Jan (Brazil)

Fruiting Times

• Feb-May

Tall liana or evergreen woody perennial climber to 15m with axillary tendrils, ferrugineous-tomentose stems. 3-lobed sharply toothed leaves velvety beneath, scabrous above to 150mm x 180mm, tomentulose on nerves above, puberulent or tomentulose beneath. Cauliflorous? Fragrant axillary solitary 190mm across bright scarlet-red flowers with serrate reddish bracts 25mm x 8mm, calyx tube to 18mm long, red sepals to 80mm long, red petals slightly shorter, 3 ranks of corona filaments, inner ring of white filaments, outer ring of red or yellow to 100mm long, middle ring pale red & shorter. Fragrant puberulent yellow-green aromatic berries becoming maroon mottled white to 50mm long.

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Herklots 1976
• Beckett 1990
• Huxley 1992
• Vanderplank 1996
• P & R 1997
• FOH
• RHS A-Z
• Llamas 2003
• Neotrop
• Zuchowski
• Bodkin
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• FOPE
• Standley
• HUA
• Academia