Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Passiflora tarminiana

Flower and leaf. Photographer Jackie Miles

Flower and leaves. Photographer Don Wood, near Eden

Spent flower and ripe fruit. Photographers Forest & Kim Starr, Hawaii

Line drawing (as Passiflora mollissima). b. flowering branch. M Moir, National Herbarium of Victoria, © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens Board 

Common name

Banana passionfruit, Banana passionflower

Family

Passifloraceae

Where found

Forest, woodland, waste areas, plantation crops, wet gullies, and along streams. Coastal. Ranges north of Jervis Bay..

Notes

Introduced climber to 10 m or more high. Fruit fleshy. Stems hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 7–16 cm long, 50-140 mm wide, usually deeply 3-lobed, uper surface hairless or sparsely hairy, lower surface covered in soft hairs, the lobe tips pointed, margins toothed. Leaf stalks with 8–12 small and often inconspicuous glands. Stipules 2–7 mm long, with broad, irregular bases extending on one side into narrow segments. Flowers pink, the narrow coloured ring at the base of the petals purple with pink spots, inner ring white, centre greenish. Flowers about 90–100 cm long, 60-90 mm in diameter, with 5 petals and 5 coloured sepals. Flowers single. Flowers recorded in most seasons. Fruit yellow to pale orange when ripe, oval, 6-14 cm long, edible. Seeds brown, surrounded by a yellowish to orange jelly.

Was Passiflora mollissima.

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