Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Passiflora subpeltata
Common name
White passionflower, White Passion Fruit
Family
Passifloraceae
Where found
Rainforest margins, disturbed rainforest, wet forest, urban bushland, woodland, roadsides, disturbed sites, and near streams. Coastal north of Milton.
Notes
Introduced slender climber to about 5 m high, sometimes creeping. Fruit fleshy. Stems sparsely hairy or hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 3–10 cm long, 30-110 mm wide, usually 3-lobed, hairless, upper surface pale green, lower surface whitish or bluish-green, the lobe tips rounded. Leaf stalks with 1–5 threadlike glands scattered along it, rarely 0 glands. Stipules leafy, two-lobed, somewhat obliquely cordate, 10–40 mm long, about 10 mm wide. Flowers white or white tinged with green, the backs of the sepals green. Flowers with 5 petals 15-20 mm long, and 5 coloured sepals 20-25 mm long, Flowers 40-55 mm in diameter, single. Fruit pale at first glaucous, green, bluish-green or yellowish, almost round to oval, 2-4 cm long, not edible. Seeds surrounded by a whitish or yellowish jelly.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Passiflora~subpeltata (accessed 30 January, 2021)
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