Passionflower
Passiflora racemosa
- Habit
- Climber
- Found in India
- West Bengal
- Flowering
- April-August
How to identify Passionflower
Identify Passionflower by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a climber habit.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Flowers hang in long dangling clusters.
- Confirm flower colour: Red.
- Confirm flower arrangement: Raceme.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: April-August.
- In India, compare location records such as West Bengal.
- Confirm it sits within the Passifloraceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Passionflower.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Passiflora racemosa
- Genus
- Passiflora
- Family
- Passifloraceae
- Habit
- Climber
- Found in India
- West Bengal
- Flowering & fruiting
- April-August
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Redrecorded
- Flower arrangement
- RacemerecordedIndividual stalked flowers arranged along a central stem, opening from bottom to top.“The specific epithet racemosa indicates that the flowers are borne in racemes.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Characters marked “recorded” are for Passionflower itself; the rest are typical of the Passifloraceae family — flowering plants only.
About Passionflower
A member of the Passifloraceae family, Passionflower (Passiflora racemosa) is a climber. In India it has been recorded in West Bengal. Flowering and fruiting run from April to August.
Passifloraceae
Passionflower family
Passionflower belongs to the Passifloraceae family.
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