Common name: Blue Passionflower
Passiflora caerulea L. APNI* 
Description: Glabrous climber.
Leaves mostly 5-lobed, lamina 8–12 cm long, margins not toothed, sometimes glaucous; petiole 1–4 cm long, usually with 2–4 glands near middle; stipules leafy, 10–20 mm long.
Flowers 6–8 cm diam., greenish white, corona bluish or purplish.
Berry subglobose, c. 6 cm long, yellow to orange.
Distribution and occurrence: Sometimes cultivated as an ornamental, often used as a stock for other cultivated species, occasionally naturalized. Native of Brazil.
NSW subdivisions: *CC, *SC, *ST, *CWS, *NWP
Other Australian states: *Qld *W.A.
Text by G. J. Harden
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)
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