Passiflora loefgrenii

Garlic passionfruit
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Passifloraceae
Genus: Passiflora
Subgenus: Passiflora
Species: P.loefgrenii
Binomial name
Passiflora loefgrenii
Vitta

Passiflora loefgrenii, the garlic passion fruit, is a strange passion fruit, with a rounded and elongated, green-ripening fruits that have a translucent pulp with a sweet flavor that has strong overtones of garlic. Passiflora loefgrenii is a perennial, climbing vine with tri-lobed leaves a bit like some of its more common relatives such as P. mollisima. Pink-lavender coloured flowers are borne on the end of the long peduncles. Propagation of P. loefgrenii is by seeds. Passiflora loefgrenii is extremely rare, not known much in cultivation. Fruits are edible and are eaten in the plant's native range. Passiflora loefgrenii is native to the Southern Atlantic coastal regions of Brazil.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Torsten Ulmer and John M. MacDougal. Passiflora: passionflowers of the world. Page 298.

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