Passiflora foetida var. moritziana | The Italian Collection of Maurizio Vecchia

Systematics (J. Macdougal et al., 2004)

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OR ORIGIN:

Venezuela and French Guiana.

MINIMUM TEMPERATURE: 12 °C

IDEAL MINIMUM TEMPERATURE: 15 °C

SYNONYMS:

 ?) P. hermannii DC., P. moritziana Planch.

ETYMOLOGY:

From the Latin foetidus, which smells, smelly, unwelcome.
Probably dedicated to the botanist Heinrich Moritz Willkomm (1821 - 1895)

NOTES:

This is the only species of Passiflora ascribed to CITES ( (Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species) because it is threatened with extinction.