Passion flower
குரங்குப்பழம்പൂടപ്പഴംঝুমকোলতা
Passiflora foetida L.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 4.0 m
- wide
- —
Passifloraceae
Also called Love-in-a-mist, Fetid passionflower, Lani wai (Ni`ihau), Pohapoha, Running pop
Formerly Dysosmia foetida, Granadilla foetida, Tripsilina foetida
When it flowers
Flowers all year 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.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Climbing annual or biennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Trop. & Subtrop. AmericaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 4.0 mRead from Botany Brisbane, one source
- Flowers
- White, cream, pink, purpleRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (5)
- Chinese
- 龙珠果, 毛西番蓮
- Simplified Chinese
- 天仙果, 假苦果, 肉果
- Tamil
- குரங்குப்பழம், மொசுக்கட்டான், துரைப்புடலை
- Bangla
- ঝুমকোলতা
- Malayalam
- പൂടപ്പഴം, കൊരുങ്ങുണ്ണിപ്പഴം, മൂക്കളപ്പഴം
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Botany Brisbane, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Passiflora foetida (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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