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Passiflora loefgrenii (garlic passion fruit)

Synonyms: Passiflora amethystina bolosii; Passiflora amethystina var. bolosii

Wikipedia Abstract

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.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0