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

Systematics (J. Macdougal et al., 2004)

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OR ORIGIN:

Widely diffused in South America, from northern Peru to the Amazon basin of Brazil.

MINIMUM TEMPERATURE: 10 °C

IDEAL MINIMUM TEMPERATURE: 12 °C

SYNONYMS:

P. foetida var. glabrifolia Miq. ex Triana & Planch., P. hispida L. DC. ex Triana & Planch., P. marigouja Perrotett ex Triana & Planch., P. foetida  var. variegata G. F. W. May,,

ETYMOLOGY:

From the Latin foetidus, which smells, smelly, unwelcome.
Covered with stiff and coarse hair (Lat. hispidus)