Passiflora eichleriana | The Italian Collection of Maurizio Vecchia

Systematics (J. Macdougal et al., 2004)

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OR ORIGIN:

From eastern Brazil to Paraguay. 

MINIMUM TEMPERATURE: 8 °C

IDEAL MINIMUM TEMPERATURE: 12 °C

SYNONYMS:

P. violacea f. albiflora Chod. & Hassl.

ETYMOLOGY:

Dedicated to the German botanist Augustwilhelm Eichler (1839 - 1883) who developed a new system of classification of plants taking into account their evolutionary paths.