Passiflora pittieri | The Italian Collection of Maurizio Vecchia

Systematics (J. Macdougal et al., 2004)

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OR ORIGIN:

Costa Rica, Santo Domingo.

MINIMUM TEMPERATURE: 12 °C

IDEAL MINIMUM TEMPERATURE: 15 °C

SYNONYMS:

ETYMOLOGY:

Dedicated to Henri François Pittier (1857 - 1950),  a Swiss botanist who moved first to Costa Rica and then to Venezuela where he established National Parks.  He classified about 30,000 plants.