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Passiflora caerulea
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Family:
PASSIFLORACEAE
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Citation: Passiflora caerulea L., Sp. Pl. 959. 1753.
Passiflora loureiroi G. Don, Gen. Hist. 3: 54. 1834.
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Malayalam Name(s):
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Blue Passion Flower, Common Passion Flower
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Description:
Glabrous climbers; branchlets grooved. Leaves alternate, deeply, palmately 5-lobed, to 10 x 12 cm, chartaceous; lobes elliptic, to 8 x 3.5 cm, entire; petiole to 4 cm, with 2-4 stipitate glands; stipules falcate, 2 x 1 cm, sunentire; tendrils axillary, to 15 cm. Flowers pale blue, solitary, axillary, to 6-8 cm wide; bracts 3, ovate-oblong, to 2 x 1.5 cm; pedicel to 6 cm. Hypanthium shallow. Calyx-lobes 5, oblong, to 2.5 x 1.5 cm, pinkish. Coronal filaments in 4 series: outer two longer (to 6 mm), blue apically, white in the middle and purple at base; inner two shorter (2 mm). Stamens 5; filaments 8 mm. Styles 3, each 1 cm, purple; stigmas 2 lobed. Berry ovoid, 6 x 4 mm; seeds numerous, 4 mm wide.
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Habit:
Climber
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Flowering & Fruiting:
Throughout the year
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District(s):
Idukki
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Grown as garden plant
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Distribution:
Native of South America
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
White, Blue
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
Yes
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Garden:
Yes
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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