Winged-Stem Passion Flower
പാസിഫ്ലോറ അലറ്റ
Passiflora alata Curtis
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 6.0 m
- wide
- 3.2 m
Passifloraceae
Also called Passionflower
Formerly Granadilla alata, Granadilla mauritiana, Passiflora angulata, Passiflora bicolorata, and 8 more
When it flowers
Flowers May to February in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- ClimberKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Ecuador to Brazil and NE. ArgentinaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS full, part; Wikipedia full
- Height
- 6.0 mRead from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 4–8 m; Wikipedia 6–6 m
- Spread
- 2.5 m to 4.0 mRead from RHS, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
Grow it with
Suggested by a rule, not by a gardener: same climate (kew), flowering when this plant does not (inaturalist), and a different shape.
African tulip treeFlowers March to April, when this does not
Artillery plantFlowers March to April, when this does not
Australian Umbrella TreeFlowers March to April, when this does not
Bitter MelonFlowers March to April, when this does not
Brazilian red-cloakFlowers March to April, when this does not
Busy LizzieFlowers March to April, when this does not
In other languages (9)
- Spanish
- Flor de la pasión de alas
- Portuguese
- Maracujá-doce, Maracujá-açu
- Czech
- mučenka křídlatá
- Chinese (China)
- 翅茎西番莲
- Chinese
- 香蜜百香果, 翅莖西番蓮, 翅茎西番莲
- Russian
- Пассифлора крылатая
- Slovak
- mučenka krídlatá
- French
- Passiflore à tiges ailées
- Malayalam
- പാസിഫ്ലോറ അലറ്റ
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Passiflora alata (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.