Passiflora auriculata Kunth

Rather coarse climbers, finely puberulent when young, becoming glabrate. Leaves petiolate, simple, basifixed, broadly ovate to ovate-lanceolate, entire or sub-entire with the lateral lobes reduced to inconspicuous angles, 4-15 cm. long, 2-10 cm. broad, conspicuously ocellate; petioles 1-3 cm. long, bearing 2 very large and auriculate glands near the base; stipules setaceous, up to about 1 cm. long. In-florescences in pairs, bearing a single greenish yellow, purple-tinged flower; peduncle about 1 cm. long, jointed above the middle; bracts inconspicuous and setose. Flowers about 2 cm. in diameter, greenish yellow or white and purple-tinged toward the base; sepals narrowly oblong-lanceolate, about 1 cm. long, not corniculate; petals linear, about half as long as the sepals; filaments of the corona in 2 series, the outer about as long as the sepals. Fruit globose, 1.0-1.5 cm. in diameter, greenish yellow.

Open, weedy vegetation in Pinus cultivations, climbing into shrubs in savannahs, secondary forest vegetation on white sands. Dense or open forests, riversides, savannah, upland or seasonally flooded rainforest, secondary forest.

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.