| Dicotyledon | Literature for Passiflora laurifolia
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. |
| Passifloraceae -- The Passion Flower Family | Bibliography |
| Passiflora laurifolia | |
Common name(s): passion flower, bell apple, yellow granadilla, yellow water lemon |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | Native to the West Indies, Guianas, and South America from Venezuela to eastern Brazil, where it is widely cultivated.In the Hawaiian Islands, naturalized on Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Maui, Hawai`i. | |
| Habit |
Lianas. |
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| Leaves |
Leaves coriaceous, blades oblong, 6.5-14 cm long, 4.5-6.5 cm wide, glabrous, margins entire, petioles with 2 rounded, subsessile nectaries ca. 1 mm long at apex, stipules linear-lanceolate, up to ca. 10 mm long, deciduous. |
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| Flowers |
Flowers pendent, campanulate, 6-8 cm in diameter, peduncles solitary, bracts obovate to elliptic, 3.5-4.3 cm long, 2-2.8 cm wide; hypanthium 0.4-0.8 cm long; sepals and petals white or splotched with purple; corona purple-banded, filamentous, ca. 2 cm long. |
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| Fruit |
Berries yellow, ovate to globose, 5-6.3 cm long, 3-4.5 cm in diameter, aril white, edible. |
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| Chromosomes |
2n = 18* |
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