Passifloraceae FAMILY
Passiflora colimensis
Passiflora colimensis
Edibility
2/5
Medicinal
0/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Botanical Description
Passiflora colimensis is a clump-forming, herbaceous perennial climbing plant with annual, hollow stems produced from a large, woody rootstock; the stems are 2 - 5 metres long, scrambling over the ground and attaching 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 harvested from the wild for local use as a food.
Habitat & Origin
Origintropical
Native RangeN. America - southwestern Mexico (Colima, Michoacán & Guerrero)
HabitatThickets, edges of warm, mesic to somewhat dry forests and sometimes in thorn scrub; at elevations up to 1,300 metres, but mainly between 400 - 1,100 metres[ 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 ].