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| Distribution | Native to tropical America, where it is cultivated for its large edible fruit and ornamental flowers.In the Hawaiian Islands,
naturalized on
O`ahu, Hawai`i.
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Habit
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Lianas; stems 4 angled.
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Leaves
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Leaves with blades ovate to broadly elliptic ovate, 7.8-13 cm long, 6-10.2 cm wide, glabrous, margins entire, base shallowly cordate, petioles with 4-6 usually paired, globose nectaries 1-2 mm in diameter, stipules broadly ovate, 18-35 mm long.
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Flowers
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Flowers campanulate, 7-10 cm in diameter; hypanthium 0.6-0.9 cm long; sepals and petals white or white tinged pink or purple; corona banded with purple, filamentous, wavy, ca. 3 cm long.
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Fruit
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Berries green at maturity, oblong, 20-30 cm long, 10-20 cm wide, aril white or grayish.
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Chromosomes
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2n = 18*.
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