Punapassio – Passiflora edulis

Stems are green, grooved, and glabrous. Tendrils are axillary, spirally coiled, longer than leaves. Leaves are alternate, deeply palmately 3-lobed and up to 25 cm long, but leaves in young plants are often undivided. Leaf margins are finely toothed. Stipules are lanceolate, about 1 cm long. Flowers are solitary, axillary, fragrant, showy, 7-10 cm in diameter. Pedunclue is triangular, 2-5 cm long, with 3 leafy bracts near the apex. Calyxis tubular at base with 5 greenish-white reflexed lobes. Petals are 5, free, white, alternating with calyx lobes, inserted on throat of calyx. Above the petals is a corona with 2 rows of wavy, threadlike, radiating filaments, purple at base, white above. Ovary is carried up on a stalk (gynophore). Styles are 3, horizontal, clavate, pale green, with longitudinal furrow. Stamens are 5 with large anthers, filaments horizontal and united with the gynophore. Fruit is a berry, round or ovoid, deep purple when ripe, glabrous, up to 9 x 7.5 cm. Seeds are many, dark-brown or black, ovoid, ca. 6 mm long, surrounded by yellowish, aromatic, pulpy, juicy aril.

Flowers are cross-pollinated, mainly by carpenter bees (Xylocopaspp.).