Passiflora edulis Sims

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Derivation of specific name:

edulis: edible

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Diagnostic:

Habit: Climber

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Common Names:

French Guiana: couzou. Guyana: passion fruit, purple granadilla.

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Miscellaneous Details:

"Notes: Western Ghats & Eastern Ghats, Cultivated, Native of Tropical America"

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Synonym:

Passiflora minima Blanco (1837), not Linnaeus (1753).

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Comments: Native to Brazil.

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Worldwide distribution:

Native of southern Brazil, Paraguay to northern Argentina, cultivated and naturalized in several regions of tropical and southern Africa.

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Habitat:

Cultivated, escaped in forests in mountain valleys; 100-1900 m.

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National Distribution:
United States

Origin: Exotic

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Unknown/Undetermined

Confidence: Confident

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Insects whose larvae eat this plant species:

Acraea aglaonice (Clear-spotted acraea)

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