Passiflora variolata | The Italian Collection of Maurizio Vecchia

Systematics (J. Macdougal et al., 2004)

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OR ORIGIN:

Amazon, Venezuela, French Guiana.

MINIMUM TEMPERATURE: 12 °C

IDEAL MINIMUM TEMPERATURE: 15 °C

ETYMOLOGY:

With structures similar to smallpox pustules, in reference to sepal glands, (Lat. variolatus, such as smallpox).