Species
Passiflora apetala
Etymology
Passiflora: Passionflower
apetala: Without petals
Common Name(s)
bat-wing passion flower
Family
Passifloraceae
Flora Category
Vascular - Exotic
Structural Class
Dicotyledonous Lianes and Related Trailing Plants
Distribution
Found naturalised in Northland and Auckland and has also been previously recorded growing in a butterfly park in Thames in the Waikato.
Habitat
Found in regenerating native forest and scrub, home gardens and amongst hedges and fence lines.
Features
A shade tolerant vine. It has leaves with two large lobes (that resemble a bat wing) and some have pale green stripes along the midribs. It has small yellow/green coloured flowers (7-12mm diameter) and produces small black berries about the size of a smll grape (7-15mm diameter). The berries are inedible and non-toxic to humans but attractive to birds.
Flower Colours
Green,Yellow
Year Naturalised
Imported approx. 30 years ago.
Origin
Costa Rica and Panama, Central America
This page last updated on 3 Jan 2014