Passiflora ligularis
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Sweet granadilla | |
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Passiflora ligularis in flower | |
Passiflora ligularis fruits | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Malpighiales |
Family: | Passifloraceae |
Genus: | Passiflora |
Species: | P. ligularis
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Binomial name | |
Passiflora ligularis |
Passiflora ligularis, commonly known as the sweet granadilla or grenadia, is a plant species in the genus
Description
The epithet ligularis comes from the plant's
Grenadias have abundant, simple leaves and greenish-white flowers. The fruit is orange to yellow colored with small light markings. It has a round shape with a tip ending in the stem. The fruit is between 6.5 and 8 centimetres (2+1⁄2 and 3+1⁄4 in) long and between 5.1 and 7 centimetres (2 and 2+3⁄4 in) in diameter. The outer shell is hard and slippery, and has soft padding on the interior to protect the seeds. The seeds, which are hard and black, are surrounded by a gelatinous sphere of translucent pulp. The pulp is the edible part of the fruit and has a soft sweet taste. It is very aromatic and contains vitamins A, C, and K, phosphorus, iron, and calcium. The main producers are Peru, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil (where it is known as maracujá doce or "sweet passion fruit"), South Africa, Rwanda and Kenya. The main importers are the United States, Canada, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Spain.
Passiflora ligularis, is an evergreen climbing shrub, producing stems of up to 5 metres (16 ft) long. The stems scramble over the ground or clamber into the surrounding vegetation, attaching themselves by means of coiling tendrils.[4]
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Leaves
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Green fruit
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Fruits hanging from vine
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Seedling
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Year-old seedling
References
- CABI.
- ^ "Sweet Granadilla - Passiflora ligularis - Seeds". tradewindsfruit.com.
- ^ "Sweet Granadilla". hort.purdue.edu.
- ISBN 0-304-34076-6.
External links
Media related to Passiflora ligularis at Wikimedia Commons
- sweet granadilla image from Mundani Botanical Garden
- Dressler, S.; Schmidt, M. & Zizka, G. (2014). "Passiflora ligularis". African plants – a Photo Guide. Frankfurt/Main: Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg.