Taxon: Passiflora edulis Sims

See also subordinate taxa:

• Passiflora edulis forma flavicarpa (no accessions)
• Passiflora edulis forma edulis (no accessions)

Common names:

• common passionfruit   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• purple granadilla   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – English
  
• purple granadilla   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English   [Passiflora edulis forma edulis]
  
• purple passionfruit   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English   [Passiflora edulis forma edulis]
  
• yellow passionfruit   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English   [Passiflora edulis forma flavicarpa]
  
• grenadella   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – Afrikaans
  
• grenadille   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French   [Passiflora edulis forma edulis]
  
• Eierfrucht   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German   [Passiflora edulis forma edulis]
  
• Maracuja   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German   [Passiflora edulis forma edulis]
  
• Purpurgrenadille   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German   [Passiflora edulis forma edulis]
  
• maracujá   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese   [Passiflora edulis forma flavicarpa]
  
• maracujá   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese   [Passiflora edulis forma edulis]
  
• maracujá   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• maracujá-comum   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• maracujá-de-comer   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• maracujá-de-ponche   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• maracujá-do-mato   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• maracujá-doce   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• maracujá-mirim   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• maracujá-peroba   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• maracujá-preto   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• maracujá-redondo   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• granada de castilla   (Source: F NGalicia ) – Spanish   [Passiflora edulis forma edulis]
  
• granadilla   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish   [Passiflora edulis forma edulis]
  
• maracuyá   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish   [Passiflora edulis forma edulis]
  
• maracuyá amarillo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish   [Passiflora edulis forma flavicarpa]
  
• maracuja   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish   [Passiflora edulis forma flavicarpa]
  
• passionsfrukt   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: fruit   (fide Invasive Pl Spec; F NGalicia)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Weed   (fide Invasive Pl Spec)
  

More:

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Brazil: Brazil - Alagoas, Amazonas, Bahia, Ceara, Espirito Santo, Federal District, Goias, Maranhao, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Para, Paraiba, Parana, Pernambuco, Piaui, Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Sul, Rio de Janeiro, Santa Catarina, Sao Paulo, Sergipe, Tocantins
  Southern South America: Argentina - Corrientes, Misiones; Paraguay

• AFRICA
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  South Tropical Africa: Angola; Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: South Africa; Swaziland
  Western Indian Ocean: Mauritius; Reunion
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Malesia: Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia [e.]
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Florida [s.e.]
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  South-Central Pacific: Cook Islands; French Polynesia; Pitcairn
  Southwestern Pacific: Fiji; New Caledonia; Niue; Tonga
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Western South America: Ecuador - Galapagos Islands

• widely cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Bosser, J. M. et al., eds. 1976–. Flores des Mascareignes.
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca.
• Figueiredo, E. & G. F. Smith. 2008. Plants of Angola. Strelitzia 22: 1-279.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Forzza, R. C. et al., coord. Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil (on-line resource).
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia.
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Harling, G. & B. Sparre, eds. 1988. Flora of Ecuador. 31:101.
• Henderson, L. 2001. Alien weeds and invasive plants: a complete guide to declared weeds and invaders in South Africa. Plant Protection Research Institute, Handbook 12.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• IPGRI. New World Fruits Database (on-line resource).
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• McVaugh, R. 1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Reitz, R., ed. 1965–. Flora ilustrada catarinense.
• Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed. 1948–. Flora malesiana.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Ulmer, T. & J. M. MacDougal. 2004. Passiflora: passionflowers of the world. 288–289.
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Wunderlin, R. & B. Hansen. Atlas of Florida vascular plants (on-line resource).
• Zuloaga, F. O. & O. Morrone, eds. 1996. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de la República Argentina. I. Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae y Angiospermae (Monocotyledonae), II. Dicotyledonae. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 60, 74., 1999

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Passiflora edulis.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Passiflora edulis.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Passiflora edulis.

Synonyms:

• Passiflora edulis var. verrucifera (Lindl.) Mast. [= Passiflora edulis forma edulis]
  
• Passiflora verrucifera Lindl. [= Passiflora edulis forma edulis]
  

Check other web resources for Passiflora edulis Sims:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• New World Fruits Database: Online database from Bioversity International
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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