Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Passiflora morifolia

Flower. Photographer Density, unknown place

Fruit and leaves. Photographer Density, unknown place

Common name

A Passionflower

Family

Passifloraceae

Where found

Garden escape near habitations. Sydney area.

Notes

Introduced twiner. Stems grooved, slightly 4-angled, velvety or with scattered hairs when young. Leaves alternating up the stems, 4–12 cm long, usually 3-lobed, surfaces hairy, cordate at the base, margins shallowly toothed. Leaf stalks with 2 glands near the leaf. Stipules about 10 mm long, about 5 mm wide at the base, curved and tapering into a fine point at the tip. Flowers mostly white, the coloured ring at the base of the sepals banded with purple, violet, or blue. Flowers 25–45 mm in diameter, with 5 white petals and 5 sepals, white mottled with red inside. Flowers single. Fruit deep purple to blue-green, more or less round, 2 cm diameter.

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

Flora of Zimbabwe description:  http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=141160 (accessed 30 January, 2021)