Passiflora foetida L.

English: Fetid Passionflower, Scarletfruit Passionflower, Stinking Passionflower

German: Stinkende Passionsblume

Mandarin: 龙珠果 (long zhu guo)

Portuguese: Maracujá de cheiro

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)

      Order: Violales (37)

        Family: Passifloraceae (10)(family description)

          Genus: Passiflora (8)

            Epithet: foetida L. (5)

Synonym: Dysosmia foetida (Linnaeus) M. Roemer

foetida => evil smelling

Climate: tropical

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: herb

Flower colour: purple, white

Check for Passiflora foetida at

World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

• [327] Passiflora foetida - Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER)
• [1538] Passiflora foetida - Flora of China @ efloras.org

• [12] Dokosi, O.B. (1998): Herbs of Ghana. Ghana University Press, Accra, Ghana.
• [13] Sauerborn E., Sauerborn J. (1985): Wichtige Unkrautarten der Tropen und Subtropen. Verlag Josef Margraf, Weikersheim, Germany.