Passifloraceae FAMILY
Passiflora exsudans
Passiflora exsudans
Edibility
2/5
Medicinal
2/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Botanical Description
Passiflora exsudans is a herbaceous climbing plant producing a cluster of stems usually 1 - 3 metres tall, occasionally to 6 metres, from a thick, woody rootstock. The stems scramble over the ground or clamber into other plants for support, attaching themselves by means of coiling 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 and a medicine.
Habitat & Origin
Origintropical
Native RangeSouthern N. America - southern Mexico to northern Mexico (Oaxaca to Coahuila and Nuevo León)
HabitatCool-temperate mesophytic woods, at forest edges, in thickets, and ecotones, nearly always associated with oak and not uncommonly with oak and pine; almost always at elevations above 2,000 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 ].