Passiflora coccinea Aubl., Hist. Pl. Guiane 828 1775. (Syn: Passiflora fulgens Wallis ex E. Morren; Passiflora toxicaria Barb. Rodr.; Passiflora velutina DC.; Tacsonia coccinea (Aubl.) Barb.Rodr.; Tacsonia fulgens (Wallis) hort. ex Mast.);
Peru, Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana, Venezuela (Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta
Amacuro), Colombia (Amazonas, Guaina, Guaviare, Meta, Santander, Vaups, Vichada), N-Brazil (Roraima, Amapa, Para, Amazonas, Acre, Rondonia), NE-Brazil (Piaui, Bahia), WC-Brazil (Mato Grosso), Haiti (I), Dominican Republic (I), Lesser Antilles (I) (Guadeloupe (I)), Honduras (I), El Salvador (I), Bangladesh (c) as per Catalogue of Life; P. coccinea has unlobed double serrated leaves and larger bracts, whereas P. vitifolia has lobed leaves somewhat similar to that of a grape leaves.
According to Ulmer & MacDougal, coccinea has “unlobed double-serrate leaves and large bracts, distinguishing it from other species of supersection Coccinea, especially P. vitifolia.”
Red Passion Flower, Scarlet Passion Flower, Red Granadilla; ‘Rakta Krishnakamal’* *’रक्त कृष्णकमळ’ in Marathi;
Wanted to share some pictures of Passiflora Coccinea or Red Passion flower seen blooming at Gangajal Nursery, Nasik on the 16th of April,2010.
Description of the plant from FOI
http://flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Red%20Passion%20Flower.html This is so beautiful…..I happen to have written a research article on Passifloras, hence I have great affinity towards this genus, especially the blue ones, but this is great and really a beautiful picture too….. Keep it up……
Excellent flower. I have seen this passion flower in a nursery in Kalyan. Is it fruiting type?
attached few pics of passiflora sp. for id.
Pics taken at a nursery in shahapur in Feb 09. Leaves are not clear in photographs, but it looks like P. coccinea on the basis of what I could study about leaves, and they are not lobed.
If the leaves are lobed mostly 3-lobed, it can be P. vitifolia.
leaves are not 3 lobed. I checked with flowers of india. It matches (flower and leaves, both) with P. coccinea.
‘Passiflora coccinea’ is called ‘Rakta Krishnakamal’ ‘रक्त कृष्णकमळ’ in Marathi.
Saw this beautiful flowering and a fruit of Passiflora coccinea at Shahpur, Mah. last week of March, ’10.
Excellent photo. Is the fruit of this variety edible?
Yes I think it is, but experts need to conform.
Yes … … would be very happy. Here is some information:
– fruit is about 2- 3 inches long and edible and looks like a mini Sandia (watermelon)
Green-yellow, striped, 2″ passion fruit with edible pulp.
The edible fruit is rounded, relatively large, 5 cm, green, striped and mottled, becoming yellow or orange when ripe.
Thank you got for the great information Sir ji , fruit is used to flavor ice-cream, juices and also other soft drinks !! oh yes used in fruit salad too I forgot !!
Thanks … for your valuable information. I was under the impression that only the variety P.edulis is edible. I have seen this plant in a Nursery in Kalyan (not for sale). Let me try whether they have some saplings for sale.
This flower picture I took from Amboli on 7.4.07.
It is shrub. Please give ID this is Passiflora coccinea
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Location: Soureni, India
Date: 7 May 2018
Altitude: 4000 ft
Habit : Cultivated
Pl. check at
I checked. It does not look like Liliaceae. Can it be some Cucurbitaceae member ?
Not sure …
Passiflora vitifolia Kunth ?? Pl. check
I am not sure.
2nd image of my recent post on same sp. and the image of the link below looks like same.
Ok
I think this may be Passiflora coccinea as per images and details herein.
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