White Passion Flower
Passiflora subpeltata
- Habit
- Climber
- Found in India
- Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Nagaland & more
- Flowering
- September-May
How to identify White Passion Flower
Identify White Passion Flower 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.
- Confirm flower colour: White.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: September-May.
- In India, compare location records such as Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Nagaland, Meghalaya.
- Confirm it sits within the Passifloraceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is White Passion Flower.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Passiflora subpeltata
- Genus
- Passiflora
- Family
- Passifloraceae
- Habit
- Climber
- Habitat
- Degraded forest areas
- Habitat type
- Forest
- Native to
- South America
- Distribution
- Widely Naturalized in tropics
- Found in India
- Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Nagaland, Meghalaya
- Flowering & fruiting
- September-May
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Whiterecorded
Characters marked “recorded” are for White Passion Flower itself; the rest are typical of the Passifloraceae family — flowering plants only.
About White Passion Flower
A member of the Passifloraceae family, White Passion Flower (Passiflora subpeltata) is a climber. In India it has been recorded in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Nagaland and 1 other states. It grows in degraded forest areas. Flowering and fruiting run from September to May.

Passifloraceae
Passionflower family
White Passion Flower belongs to the Passifloraceae family.
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