Crimson Passion Flower

Description:

It is a vine with cylindric stems covered in red-brown hairs when young. The leaves are serrate, three-lobed. The lobed leaves' resemblance to grape leaves gives this passionflower its specific epithet, "vitifolia," meaning "grape leaves" after the Latin for grape "vitis." The flowers are bright red. The fruit is a berry, with green flesh speckled with white, slight downy hairs, containing numerous seeds.The fruit is quite sour still when it falls off the plant and can take a month to ripen to its full flavor of sour strawberries.

Habitat:

Native from Costa Rica and other parts of Central America.