Passiflora edulis Sims

 
  • Family : PASSIFLORACEAE
    (Passion-Flower Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : KRISHNA KAMAL FAMILY (कृष्णा कमल फैमिली )
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : PASSIFLORACEAE
  • Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Passiflora edulis Sims
  • Common name : Passion fruit, Juice fruit, The edible passion, Edible passion flower, Granadilla, Maracuya, Purple granadilla, Parcha
  • Vernacular name : Rasna pazham. Thuraipadalai (Tamil); Kodikkai, Poonakkai, Sarbath, Thattupootan, Passion fruit (Malayalam)
  • Habit : Climber
  • Comments / notes : Cultivated for its edible fruits, often runs wild.
  • Flower, Fruit : March-May
  • Native : East and West tropical S. America
  • World Distribution : Cultivated in most parts of the world.
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2007 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 3; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Passiflora edulis. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

Botanical Description

Herbarium Specimen(s)

Field Image(s)

Comments

All fields are required






 
Creative Commons License
Digital Flora of Peninsular India by Herbarium JCB is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ernet.in.