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Passiflora ligularis Juss., Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 6: 113 1805. (Syn: Passiflora lowei Heer; Passiflora serratistipula Moc. & Sesse ex DC.; Passiflora tiliifolia L.);
Colombia (Antioquia, Boyac, Cauca, Cundinamarca, Huila, Meta, Nario, Norte de
Santander, Quindo, Risaralda, Santander, Tolima, Valle), Jamaica (I), Peru, Mexico (Chiapas, Mexico State, Michoacan, Oaxaca, Puebla, Veracruz), Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Panama, Costa Rica, Venezuela (Aragua, Distrito Federal, Lara, Merida, Miranda, Tachira, Trujillo), Ecuador, Bolivia (Cochabamba, La Paz, Santa Cruz), Society Isl. (I) (Tahiti (I)), Hawaii (I) (Kauai (I), Oahu (I), Lanai (I), West Maui (I), Hawaii Isl. (I)), Sri Lanka (I), trop. Africa (I) as per Catalogue of Life; Passiflora ligularis, commonly known as the Sweet granadilla or Grenadia is a plant species in the Passiflora genus. The epithet ligularis comes from the plant’s ligulate corollae. It is native to the Andes Mountains between Bolivia, Venezuela and Colombia. It grows as far south as northern Argentina and as far north as Mexico. Outside of its native range it grows in the tropical mountains of Africa and Australia (where they are known as passionfruit), and is now common in local markets of Papua New Guinea, where it is known as ‘sugar fruit’.
It likes climates ranging from 15° to 18° C and between 600 and 1000 mm of annual rain. It lives at altitudes ranging from 1700 to 2600 meters above sea level.
They have abundant, simple leaves and greenish-white flowers. The fruit is orange to yellow colored with small light markings. It has a round shape with a tip ending in the stem. The fruit is between 6.5 and 8 cm long and between 5.1 and 7 cm in diameter. The outer shell is hard and slippery, and has soft padding on the interior to protect the seeds. The seeds, which are hard and black, are surrounded by a gelatinous sphere of transparent pulp.
The pulp is the edible part of the fruit and has a soft sweet taste. It is very aromatic and contains vitamins A, C, and K, phosphorus, iron, and calcium.
The main producers are Peru, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, South Africa, Rwanda and Kenya. The main importers are the United States, Canada, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Spain.
(From Wikipedia 0n 22.9.13)
I found this passiflora creeper at one of the ornamental nursery at somatane fata, old pune-mumbai highway.
from the leaves it does not look like a passiflora creeper. Waiting for more answers.
Not Passiflora for me too I think it is Passiflora ligularis, an American sp with simple leaves and sweet edible fruits. Thank you, …, I thought the leaves of passiflora are always three-lobed.
References: The Plant List Ver. 1.1 Wikipedia CABI Useful Tropical Plants |
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