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Passiflora edulis

Pārapōtini Papa‘ā

Purple Passionfruit

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Purple Passionfruit, Passionfruit, Purple Granadilla; German Maracuja, Purpur Granadilla,; French Passiflore, Grenadilla Douce

TRADITIONAL NAMES: Pārapōtini Papa‘ā (RR AT MK MT AK), Ka‘atene Papa‘ā / Kātinga Papa‘ā (MG); Other Polynesian - Pāsio (SAM)

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE Brazil

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Introduced - Recent, Naturalised; Land, lowlands

SIGNIFICANCE LIST: Food (Fruit 3+); Invasive - moderate

KEY FEATURES: Climbing vine. STEM obtuse-angled. LEAVES alternate, wide-oval to deeply 3-lobed, to 18x25cm(LxW), glossy green, edge toothed; stalk to 7cm with 2 round knob to 2mmØ, stipules narrow, to 1cmL. FLOWERS to 8cmØ with mainly white. FRUIT (=berry) wide-ovoid, to 9x8cm(LxØ), mature yellow, greenish, reddish, or purplish, ±pale speckles; SEEDS many with succulent aril. Several cvs.

Cook Islands Distribution

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Southern Group: Present Makatea: Present
RR	MG	AT	MK	MT	AK	PL	TK	MN
+++	++++	+++	+	P	P	-		-

Northern Group:
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW
-	-	-	-	-	-

Key to Symbols

blank	no data
-	absent	L	localised
X	extinct 'naturally'	W	widespread
XQi	quarantine intercepted	R	recent
XQe	eradicated	?	query preceding category
P	present	T?	taxonomic query
S	seasonal	nn	present, said to have no name
O	occasional	?1	present, name not investigated
++++	very common	?2	presence not verified, no name recorded
+++	common	N/A	absent, name not expected
++	uncommon
+	rare
Cook Islands islands: RR =Rarotonga, MG = Mangaia, AT =‘Ātiu, MK=Ma‘uke, MT=Miti‘āro, AK=Aitutaki, PL=Palmerston, PN=Penrhyn, MN=Manuae, TK=Takūtea, TN=Tongareva (TS=Tongaleva Spoken, TW=Tongareva Written, they say "el" but write "r"), MH=Manihiki, RK=Rakahanga, PK=Pukapuka, NS=Nassau, SW=Suwarrow. After a Polynesian name: ^=orthography query. Countries and other: FIJ=Fiji, WT=Wallis & Futuna, SAM=Samoa, TON=Tonga, NIU=Niue, CK=Cook Islands, CKM=Cook Islands Māori, FP=French Polynesia, AUS=Australs, SOC=Societies, TAH=Tahiti, TUA=Tuamotus, MQS=Marquesas, MNG=Mangareva, PIT=Pitcain group, EAS=Easter Island, HAW=Hawai‘i, NZ=New Zealand, NZM=New Zealand Māori

Scientific Taxonomy

Passiflora edulis Sims
TAXONOMY: PLANTAE; ANTHOPHYTA (=Angiospermae); MAGNOLIOPSIDA (=Dicotyledones); DILLENIIDAE; Violales; PASSIFLORACEAE

More Information

SIGNIFICANCE NOTES -
POSITIVE SIGNIFICANCE: Food (Fruit 3+)
NEGATIVE SIGNIFICANCE: Invasive - moderate. Comments: An invasive on Mangaia

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
None Recorded.

References:
p.1010 Wagner et al.- Flowering Plants of Hawaii
p.599 Neal - In Gardens of Hawaii
p.816 Tropica
p.2/668 A.C.Smith - Flora Vitiensis Nova
p.77 Wilder - Flora of Rarotonga
p.388b Whistler - Ethnobotany of the Cook Islands

Data Update History (information):
zTX, zB02, zM02, zupM03a, zD06a

Web Resources

Citation Information

McCormack, Gerald (2007) Cook Islands Biodiversity Database, Version 2007.2. Cook Islands Natural Heritage Trust, Rarotonga. Online at http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org.
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