Common name: Common Passionfruit
Passiflora edulis Sims APNI* 
Description: Glabrous climber.
Leaves usually deeply 3-lobed, occasionally unlobed on young plants; lamina 6–15 cm long, glossy green, regularly toothed; petiole 2–4 cm long, with 2 raised glands near apex; stipules linear, c. 10 mm long, not persistent.
Flowers 6–7 cm diam., white tinged with purple.
Berry ovoid, 30–40 mm diam., purple; edible.
Distribution and occurrence: Common, widely cultivated, often naturalized, especially on edge of rainforest and moist gullies north from the Illawarra region. Native of Amer.
NSW subdivisions: *NC, *CC, *SC, *LHI
Other Australian states: *Qld
Text by G. J. Harden
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)
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