Passiflora coccinea Aubl., Passifloraceae

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Present on Pacific Islands?  no

Primarily a threat at high elevations?  no

Common name(s): [more details]

English: red granadilla, red passion flower, scarlet passion flower

Habit:  vine

Description:  "Plant rufo-puberulent or rufo-tomentose nearly throughout; stipules narrowly linear, entire or minutely glandular-serrulate; petioles glandless, or biglandular at the base; blades oblong, 6-14 cm long, 3-7 cm wide, not lobed, subcordate, duplicate-serrate or crenate, glabrous or sparingly pubescent above, ferruginous- or cano-tomentose beneath; peduncles up to 8 cm long; bracts ovate, up to 6 cm long, 1-3.5 cm wide, free to base, coriaceous, crenate or sharply serrate, usually glandular at the margin, reddish; flowers scarlet or red; calyx tube short-cylindric-campanulate, up to 2 cm long, purple above, pink or white below, the inner rank tubular, filamentose only at the margin, white; ovary yellowish-tomentose; fruit subglobose or ovoid, about 5 cm in diameter; seeds minutely reticulate." (Macbride, 1941; p. (4/1):103-104)

Habitat/ecology:  In its native habitat, "it mainly grows in the tropical Amazonian lowlands, but in Bolivia it proceeds to altitudes of about 2000 m in the western foothills of the Andes.  It occurs on noninundated lateritic soil" (Ulmer & MacDougal, 2004; p. 286).

Propagation:  Seed

Native range:  South America: Bolivia; Brazil (Amazonian); Colombia; French Guiana; Guyana; Peru; Suriname; Venezuela

Presence:

Pacific
Country/Terr./St. & Island group	Location	Cited status & Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction?	Reference & Comments
Nauru Nauru Island	Nauru Island	introduced cultivated	Thaman, R. R./Fosberg, F. R./Manner, H. I./Hassall, D. C. (1994) (p. 179)

Pacific Rim
Country/Terr./St. & Island group	Location	Cited status & Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction?	Reference & Comments
Australia Australia (continental)	Australia (continental)	introduced	Humphries, S. E./Stanton, J. P. (1992)
Colombia Colombia	Colombia (Republic of)	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2011)
Perú Perú	Perú (Republic of)	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2011)
Singapore Singapore	Singapore (Republic of)	introduced cultivated	Chong, Kwek Yan/Tan, Hugh T. W./Corlett, Richard T. (2009) (p. 67) Cultivated only

Additional information:
Fact sheet from the University of Florida Cooperative Extension Service.

Additional online information about Passiflora coccinea is available from the Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project (HEAR).

Information about Passiflora coccinea as a weed (worldwide references) may be available from the Global Compendium of Weeds (GCW).

Taxonomic information about Passiflora coccinea may be available from the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).

References:

Chong, Kwek Yan/Tan, Hugh T. W./Corlett, Richard T. 2009. A checklist of the total vascular plant flora of Singapore: native, naturalised and cultivated species. Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, National University of Singapore. 273 pp.

Humphries, S. E./Stanton, J. P. 1992. Weed assessment in the wet tropics world heritage area of north Queensland. Report to The Wet Tropics Management Agency. 75 pp. plus plates.

Macbride, J. Francis. 1936. Flora of Peru. Field Museum of Natural History, Botanical Series, Vol. XIII. 1936-1971, 6 parts.

Thaman, R. R./Fosberg, F. R./Manner, H. I./Hassall, D. C. 1994. The flora of Nauru. Smithsonian Institution, Washington. Atoll Research Bulletin 392:1-223.

U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. 2011. National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Online searchable database.

Ulmer, Torsten/MacDougal, John M. 2004. Passiflora: Passionflowers of the world. Timber Press.