Passiflora karwinskii

Botanical Description

Passiflora karwinskii is a procumbent to weakly climbing herbaceous perennial plant producing a clump of several to numerous annual stems 70 - 200cm long from a bulky, woody taproot. The stems often form procumbent mats of growth, though they can also attach themselves to nearby vegetation by means of tendrils[ 1674 Title Revision of Passiflora Subgenus Decaloba Section Pseudodysosmia (Passifloraceae) Publication Systematic Botany Monographs, Vol 41 pp 1 - 146, 1994 Author MacDougal J.M. Website http://www.jstor.org/stable/25027834 Publisher American Society of Plant Taxonomists Year 1994 ISBN Description ]. The plant is probably harvested from the wild for use as a food.