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Passiflora quadrangularis

Pārapōtini

Giant Granadilla

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Giant Granadilla; German Königs-Granadilla

TRADITIONAL NAMES: Pārapōtini (RR TW), Pāpatīni (MG AK), Kūkuma (AT), Maratini (MK MT), Pālapōtini (TS)

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE tropical America

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Introduced - Recent, Not naturalised, occasionally naturalised.; Land, lowlands

SIGNIFICANCE LIST: Food (Fruit 1+)

KEY FEATURES: Climbing vine. STEM 4-winged. LEAVES alternate, wide-ovate, to 10x14cm. glossy green, base lobed; stalk with 4-6 round knobs to 2mmØ, stipules wide-oval, to 4cmL. FLOWERS to 8cmØ with white and purple. FRUIT (=berry) oblong, to 30x20cm(LxØ), often 3-grooved, matures green-yellow, edible.

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Cook Islands Distribution

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

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 quadrangularis Linnaeus
TAXONOMY: PLANTAE; ANTHOPHYTA (=Angiospermae); MAGNOLIOPSIDA (=Dicotyledones); DILLENIIDAE; Violales; PASSIFLORACEAE

More Information

SIGNIFICANCE NOTES -. Comment: NBSAP - Mauke (8 of 9 domestic plants)
POSITIVE SIGNIFICANCE: Food (Fruit 1+)

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
None Recorded.

References:
p.1012 Wagner et al.- Flowering Plants of Hawaii
p.597 Neal - In Gardens of Hawaii
p.826 Hortus 3rd
p.848 Royal Hort. Soc. Index of Garden Plants
p.817 Tropica
p.2/668 A.C.Smith - Flora Vitiensis Nova
p.281 R* Cheeseman - Flora of Rarotonga
p.77 * Wilder - Flora of Rarotonga
p.387c Whistler - Ethnobotany of the Cook Islands

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