Passiflora foetida |
Passiflora tarminiana |
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fetid passionflower, scarletfruit passionflower, stinking passionflower |
banana passion fruit, banana passionflower, banana poka |
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Stems | terete, densely hairy. |
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Leaves | not pungent, densely soft-hairy abaxially, sparsely hairy adaxially; stipules subreniform, often leaflike, 4–7 × 2–3 mm, eglandular; petiole glandular, glands emergent protuberances; blade roughly symmetric, 5.5–16(–28) × 7–16(–29) cm, deeply 3-lobed, middle lobe as long as or longer than lateral lobes, margins serrate; abaxial fine veins prominently raised, abaxial nectaries absent. |
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Flowers | floral tube elongate, 60–80 mm deep; sepals pink, 45–60 × 12–25 mm; petals pink, 40–54 × 15–20 mm; corona filament whorls 1, filaments tuberculate knobs, purple basally, white apically, 1–2 mm. |
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Berries | yellow to orange-yellow, oblong to ellipsoid-fusiform, 100–140 × 35–45 mm. |
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Floral | bracts leaflike, 25–50 × 20–30 mm, margins entire, eglandular. |
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Passiflora foetida |
Passiflora tarminiana |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Sep(–Dec). | |
Habitat | Pine or oak woodlands and woodland edges | |
Elevation | 0–100 m (0–300 ft) | |
Distribution |
TX; Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies [Introduced in tropical Asia, Africa, Pacific Islands, Australia]
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CA; South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela) [Introduced in North America] |
Discussion | Varieties ca. 30 (1 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Passiflora tarminiana is sparingly naturalized in the eastern San Francisco Bay area (F. Hrusa et al. 2002) and southward along the coast to San Luis Obispo County, in areas of minimal summer drought. This species was recently described, and is commonly confused with Passiflora mollissima (Kunth) L. H. Bailey [now usually recognized as P. tripartita var. mollissima (Knuth) Holm-Nielsen & P. Jørgensen]. Many reports of P. mollissima in agricultural, horticultural, and weed-science literature actually apply to P. tarminiana. An attractive plant with large, edible fruits (T. Ulmer and J. M. MacDougal 2004), it is an extremely aggressive weed in Hawaii (A. M. La Rosa 1984, as P. mollissima) and other areas where it has been introduced in the Old World tropics and subtropics. The species is unlikely to become a widespread weed in the continental United States because it cannot survive frost nor occasional desiccation. A similar, closely related species, Passiflora mixta Linnaeus f., is a rare escape in San Francisco, California; it can be distinguished from P. tarminiana by its angular young stems, persistent stipules (deciduous in P. tarminiana), and a floral tube 80–110 mm deep, 1.6–2.6 times the sepal length (1.3–1.6 times in P. tarminiana). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 6, p. 178. | FNA vol. 6, p. 178. |
Parent taxa | Passifloraceae > Passiflora | Passifloraceae > Passiflora |
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Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 959. (1753) | Coppens & V. E. Barney: Novon 11: 9, figs. 1, 3, plate 1. (2001) |
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