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Passiflora vitifolia

Passiflora vitifolia

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Flor De La Pasión Roja

Family: Passifloraceae
Order: Malpighiales
Class: Magnoliopsida
Phylum / Division: Magnoliophyta
Kingdom: Plantae

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Passiflora vitifolia, the perfumed passionflower, is a species of Passiflora native to southern Central America and northwestern South America.

 It is a vine with cylindric stems covered in red-brown hairs when young. The leaves are serrate, three-lobed, up to 15 cm long and 18 cm broad. The lobed leaves´ resemblance to grape leaves gives this passionflower its specific epithet, "vitifolia," meaning "grape leaves" after the Latin for grape "vitis." The flowers are bright red, up to 9 cm diameter. The fruit is a berry 5 cm long and 3 cm broad, with green flesh speckled with white, slight downy hairs, containing numerous seeds. The fruit is quite sour when it falls off the plant and can take a month to ripen to its full flavor of sour strawberries. Due to the fragrant fruit, it is in small-scale cultivation in the Caribbean.

Distribution: It is native to southern Central America (Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama) and northwestern South America (Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru).

Source: Wikipedia, article Passiflora vitifolia. Content adapted from Wikipedia, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Accessed on 17/07/2026.





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Count: 5

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Photography ID: 646310
  Adult

Reserva El Copal
Cartago
Costa Rica
03/30/2025
Eduardo Nadal
Foto
Photography ID: 568467
  Adult

El Castillo del Arenal
Alajuela
Costa Rica
02/27/2017
Luis Cesar Tejo
Foto
Photography ID: 488984
  Adult

Puerto Iguazú
Misiones
Argentina
03/28/2022
Roberto Battaglia
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Photography ID: 486144
♂ ♀
  Adult

Puerto Iguazú
Misiones
Argentina
03/03/2022
Silvia Sokolovsky


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Record IDDateExact timeCountryProvince / departmentPlaceFilmedPhotographedRecorded vocalObservedHeardWounded or deadNumber of individualsUser or BibliographyDetail
233278130/03/2025Costa RicaCartagoReserva El CopalEduardo Nadal
156743028/03/2022ArgentinaMisionesJardín de los Picaflores, Puerto IguazúRoberto Battaglia
156008803/03/2022ArgentinaMisionesJardín de los Picaflores, Puerto IguazúSilvia Sokolovsky
196418427/02/2017Costa RicaAlajuelaEl Castillo del ArenalLuis Cesar Tejo
140731704/09/2012Costa RicaSan JoséParque Metropolitano La SabanaHugo Caverzasi
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Please use the following reference when citing this species account.
EcoRegistros. 2026. Passiflora vitifolia – Species account. Accessed from www.ecoregistros.org on 11/09/2026.