Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Passiflora herbertiana subsp. herbertiana

Flowers, bud, and leaves. Photographer Jackie Miles

Pollinated flower with young fruit. Photographer Jackie Miles

Leafy stems with green fruit. Photographer Jackie Miles

Common name

Native passionfruit

Family

Passifloraceae

Where found

Forest and moist gullies. North from Cobargo. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands.

Notes

Twiner, hairy or rarely hairless, stems to about 5 m long. Fruit fleshy to rather dry. Stems densely hairy when young, becoming sparsely hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, mostly 6–12 cm long, 35-80 mm wide, 3-5 lobed, the lobes broad and shallow, usually pointed at the tips; leaves rarely unlobed. Sometimes juvenile plants with leaves 2–4 cm long and the lobe tips rounded. Leaf stalks with 2 glands near the leaf. Stipules narrow, mostly 1–3 mm long. Flowers white to yellow turning orange-pink, ring around the centre of the flower yellow to pinkish, centre whitish to greenish. Flowers 40–65 mm in diameter, with 5 petals and 5 coloured sepals, the sepals much longer than the petals. Flowers single. Fruit green with pale to fawn warty spots, oval to almost round, 2.5-5 cm long.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Passiflora~herbertiana (accessed 30 January, 2021)