WorldFloraDB - Passiflora incarnata

Characteristics

Stems climbing or trailing to 8 m, pubescent; petioles pubescent, glandular at or near the summit; lvs deeply 3-lobed, puberulent beneath, truncate or rounded to a small cuneate base, the lobes lance-ovate, constricted at base, acuminate, serrulate; peduncle elongate, with glandular-serrate bracts above; fls 4–6 cm wide, the pet and sep white, the outer corona 2 cm, purple or pink, the inner much shorter; berry edible, yellow, ellipsoid, 5 cm; 2n=18, 36. Fields, roadsides, thickets, and open woods; Va. and sw. Pa. to s. O., s. Ill. and Okla., s. to Fla. and Tex. June–Aug.

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Stems terete, short-hairy, (bark not corky, above-ground stems annual). Leaves weakly to moderately pungent, sparsely to moderately hairy; stipules linear-setaceous, 3–5 × 0.5 mm, eglandular; petiole glandular, glands emergent protuberances; blade roughly symmetric, 4–12(–22) × 4–12(–30) cm, deeply 3(–5)-lobed, middle lobe as long as or longer than lateral lobes, margins serrate; abaxial fine veins prominently raised, abaxial nectaries absent.

A vigorous climber. The vines can be 4.5 m long. The leaves have 3 lobes and are 15 cm long and wide. They are blue-green underneath and have teeth along the edges. The flowers are 5 cm wide and white. The fruit are oval and yellow. They are 5 cm long. They have a flavour something like apricot.

Plant pilosulous; involucral bracts c. 1 cm; petals white or lavender, corona filaments mostly purplish or pinkish; fruit up to 5 cm ø.

Life form

perennial

Growth form

Growth support

-

Foliage retention

evergreen

Sexuality

hermaphrodite

Pollination

entomogamy

Spread

-

Mature width (meter)

0.5 - 1.0

Mature height (meter)

6.0

Root system

creeping-root

Rooting depth (meter)

-

Root diameter (meter)

-

Flower color

Blooming months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Fruit color

Fruiting months

-

Nitrogen fixer

-

Photosynthetic pathway

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Environment

Fields, roadsides, fence rows and thickets. Open woodland, savannah, prairies, dunes, cultivated ground and disturbed areas, in clayey, loamy, or sandy, dry to mesic, and often poor soil; at elevations to 1,000 metres, usually below 400 metres

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It is a temperate plant. It grows in subtropical America. It grows to 39°N in the USA. It is hardy to-10°C. The vine dies back and re-grows with temperatures below freezing. It needs a well drained soil. It suits hardiness zones 6-10.

Light
Soil humidity
Soil texture
Soil acidity
Soil nutriment	-
Hardiness (USDA)

Usage

The fruit are eaten raw. They are also made into jelly, jams, wines, sherberts and drinks. The young leaves are eaten raw or cooked. The flowers are eaten as a salad or made into syrup.

Uses	beverage medicinal oil
Edible	flowers fruits leaves seeds
Therapeutic use	Dermatological Aid (root), Dietary Aid (root), Ear Medicine (root), Liver Aid (root), Pediatric Aid (root), Blood Medicine (root), Aphrodisiac (unspecified), Burn (unspecified), Dysmenorrhea (unspecified), Epilepsy (unspecified), Insomnia (unspecified), Medicine (unspecified), Morphinism (unspecified), Narcotic (unspecified), Neuralgia (unspecified), Perfume (unspecified), Sedative (unspecified), Skin (unspecified), Soporific (unspecified), Spasm (unspecified), Diarrhea (unspecified), Piles (unspecified), Cyanogenetic (unspecified), Eye (unspecified), Neurosis (unspecified), Eruption (unspecified)
Human toxicity	-
Animal toxicity	-

Cultivation

It is grown from cuttings.

Mode	cuttings seedlings
Germination duration (days)	30 - 365
Germination temperacture (C°)	21 - 29
Germination luminosity	-
Germination treatment	soaking
Minimum temperature (C°)	-
Optimum temperature (C°)	-
Size	-
Vigor	-
Productivity	-