Passifloraceae FAMILY
Passiflora rubra
Passiflora rubra
Edibility
2/5
Medicinal
2/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Botanical Description
Passiflora rubra is a perennial climbing plant, producing slender stems that attach themselves to the surrounding vegetation by means of tendrils The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a food and medicine.
Habitat & Origin
Origintropical
Native RangeS. America - Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, French Guiana; Caribbean
HabitatThickets, woodland margins and rocky banks; at elevations from 80 - 800 metres in Jamaica[ 426 Title Flowering Plants of Jamaica Publication Author Adams. C.D. Publisher University of the West Indies; Jamaica. Year 1972 ISBN Description A terse treatment of the flowering plants of Jamaica, with a botanical description of each plant, notes on habitat etc. ]. Dense to open rainforest, savannah and maritime forests[ 1675 Title A taxonomic revision of Passiflora subgenus Decaloba (Passifloraceae) in Brazil Publication Phytotaxa 53; 1-68, 2012 Author Milward de Azeved M.A.; Fernando J.; Baumgratz A. & Gonçalve Publisher Magnolia Press; Auckland Year 2012 ISBN 1179-3155 Description ].