Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Passiflora cinnabarina
Common name
Red Passion-flower
Family
Passifloraceae
Where found
Forest, rocky areact.as, and river gorges. Mainly coast and ranges. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Slender hairless climber or scrambler with stems to several metres long. Fruit fleshy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 6–10 cm long, 40-100 mm wide, usually 3-lobed, the lobe tips blunt to pointed; margins entire to wavy. Leaf stalks without glands. Stipules narrow and pointed, 3–10 mm long. Flowers red, the backs of the petals and sepals greenish, flower centre yellow or yellowish green and whitish. Flowers 40–70 mm in diameter, with 5 petals, and 5 coloured sepals, the sepals much longer than the petals. Flowers single. Fruit greenish grey, at first glaucous, hairless, oval to oval or roundish, 1.5–3.5 cm long. Flowers Sep.–Jan.
Regarded as indigenous/naturalised in the ACT. All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Passiflora~cinnabarina (accessed 30 January, 2021)
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