Vigorous vine; shoots densely hairy, weakly angular when young. Lvs 3-lobed; petioles 1.5-5 cm long, densely hairy, with (4)-6-12 stalked or subsessile glands; stipules 5-10 mm wide (excluding subulate apex when present), subreniform, with glandular teeth; lamina lobes usually 5-14 cm long, extending 1/2-⅔ of the distance in from the margin, usually ± tomentose below, hairy or glabrate above, elliptic or elliptic-ovate, narrow-lanceolate on juvenile shoots, serrate or serrulate, acute; middle lobe largest, 4-9 × 2-5 cm. Fls ☿, solitary. Pedicels > petioles, densely hairy. Bracts 1.5-3.75 cm long, ovate or broad-ovate, ± tomentose outside, entire or slightly toothed, united for lower 1/4-1/2 until anthesis. Hypanthium 8-9.5 cm long, glabrous outside. Sepals 2-3.8 cm long, elliptic, green on reverse, pink or rose inside, rounded and with short horn near apex; petals similar but pink on both sides; corona a ring of purple, white-tipped scales 1-2 mm long. Filaments 1.5-2 cm long, pale, often scarcely > anthers; anthers (7)-10-12 mm long. Ovary white-villous. Fr. (6)-7-12 × 2-3 cm, ± ellipsoid, yellow or orange-yellow, puberulent; pulp sweet and orange, edible. Seed 4.5-5.5 mm long, broad-obovoid, dark red to black, alveolate.