Passiflora popenovii | The Italian Collection of Maurizio Vecchia

Systematics (J. Macdougal et al., 2004)

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OR ORIGIN:

Eastern slopes of the Andes of Ecuador. 

MINIMUM TEMPERATURE: 10 °C

IDEAL MINIMUM TEMPERATURE: 12 °C

ETYMOLOGY:

Dedicated to the American botanist and agronomist Frederick Wilson Popenoe (1892 - 1975).
He did numerous botanical research in South America for the United Fruit Company.