Passiflora biflora Lam.

 

DESCRIPTION AND ETHNOBOTANY

Growth FormFoliageFlowers

A herbaceous vine, it has a twining growth form and climbs with the aid of tendrils.

The bilobate leaves are simple and can grow up to 10cm long and wide. It has 3 conspicuous sub-veins  spreading outwards from the base, the leaf lobes are ovate to lanceolate in shape.

The bisexual flowers grow up to 3.5cm wide, the sepals are white on the inner surface and light green on the outer surface.  The petals are white, the corona filaments are arranged in two rows and are yellow in colour, the outer filaments are angled and dilated around the middle.

Fruit

The fruit is a globose to ovoid berry and turns bluish-black when ripe.

NParks | Passiflora biflora

 

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