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Passifloraceae

Subfamily Passifloroideae

Passiflora capsularis L.

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  • Family: Passifloraceae Juss. ex Kunth.

  • Country of Origin: tropical America
  • Habitat:

  • Description: A most attractive species from western tropical America with 2-lobed leaves, downy beneath, and bearing greenish-white or yellow-green flowers with pale yellow, spreading coronas. The flowers are star-shaped but the kind of star you would put at the top of a Christmas Tree.
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Accession Data:

  • Accession # 199500133
  • Source: RHS
  • Accession Date: 05-08-1995
  • Bench: 2101 - Dormant Aroids
  • Qty: 1 confirmed on 01-30-2008
Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Magnoliopsida
  • SubClass: eurosid I
  • Order: Malpighiales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Passifloraceae
  • SubFamily: Passifloroideae
  • Tribe:
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References:

1995 Chiltern Seed Catalog

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