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Red Passionflower

Passiflora vitifolia

Description:

I have seen it on my way go to Tee Lor Su waterfall in Umphang National Park., native to southern Central America (Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama) and northwestern South America (Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru). It is a vine with cylindric stems covered in red-brown hairs when young. The leaves are serrate, three-lobed, up to 15 cm long and 18 cm broad. 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, up to 9 cm diameter. The fruit is a berry 5 cm long and 3 cm broad, 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.Due to the fragrant fruit, it is in small-scale cultivation in the Caribbean.

Habitat:

Umphang National Park in northtern Thailand.

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Red Passionflower
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9 Comments

Uday
Uday 11 years ago

welcome! :)

YuikiYuki
YuikiYuki 11 years ago

Thanks, Martin :)

MartinUrban
MartinUrban 11 years ago

Beautyful !

YuikiYuki
YuikiYuki 11 years ago

Okay thanks Uday :)

YuikiYuki
YuikiYuki 11 years ago

Thanks for ID suggestions dandoucette :)

Uday
Uday 11 years ago

yh it red passion fruit flower.

YuikiYuki
YuikiYuki 11 years ago

I think so, OnengDyah thanks :)

Dan Doucette
Dan Doucette 11 years ago

These are beautiful flowers and I love passionfruit, but they are not native to Thailand. They are from the Americas.

OnengDyah
OnengDyah 11 years ago

Poison flower..I think.

YuikiYuki
Spotted by
YuikiYuki

Chiang Mai เชียงใหม่, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Spotted on Aug 26, 2012
Submitted on Aug 26, 2012

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