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Passiflora caerulea L.

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Passiflora caerulea L.
Passiflora caerulea L.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Passiflora caerulea L.
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Passiflora caerulea

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Passiflora caerulea L.

Glabrous vine. Shoots angular. Lvs 5-lobed almost to base, membranous; petioles 1-3 cm long, with 1-3 stalked glands usually near middle of petiole; stipules c. 2 cm broad, subreniform, undulate, sometimes dentate; lamina lobes subequal; middle lobe 3.5-6.5-(8.5) × 0.5-3 cm, elliptic-obovate or narrow-elliptic, sometimes almost linear on vegetative shoots, membranous and dull above, entire or crenulate, mucronate. Fls ☿, solitary. Pedicels 3.5-6.5 cm long. Bracts 2-2.8 cm long, broad-ovate, entire, cordate, imbricate. Hypanthium inconspicuous. Sepals and petals 3-4.5 cm long, oblong, white inside; sepals greenish outside and with short dorsal horn towards apex; corona threads c. 2 cm long, with base purple, middle white, and apex violet. Stamens greenish; anthers c. 10 mm long, = or slightly > filaments. Ovary glabrous. Fr. c. 3-5 cm diam., subglobose, yellow; pulp scanty and inedible. Seed c. 4 mm long, broad-elliptic, strongly alveolate, silvery brownish.

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Passiflora caerulea L.
Passiflora caerulea L.
Passiflora caerulea L.
Passiflora caerulea L.
Passiflora caerulea L.
Passiflora caerulea L.
Passiflora caerulea L.
Passiflora caerulea L.
Passiflora caerulea L.
Passiflora caerulea L.
Passiflora caerulea L.
Passiflora caerulea L.
Passiflora caerulea L.
Passiflora caerulea L.
Passiflora caerulea L.
Passiflora caerulea L.

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Passiflora caerulea L.
New Zealand
Passiflora caerulea L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Passiflora caerulea L.
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Passiflora caerulea L.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Passiflora caerulea L.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Passiflora caerulea L.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Passiflora caerulea L.
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
Passiflora caerulea L.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Passiflora caerulea L.
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
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