Botanical name: Passiflora tarminiana    Family: Passifloraceae (Passion flower family)

Banana Passion Flower is a high climbing vine with hairy stems and leaf-stalks. The leaves are three-lobed and hairy below but usually hairless above. The flowers are solitary and hang downwards. The base of the flower has pale green bracts enclosing a swollen nectary chamber. The flower tube is 6–8 x 0.7-1 cm and pale green, while the sepals and petals are 3-6 cm long, pink and perpendicular to the floral tube, or reflexed. Fruits look like small bananas, tapering at both ends, 10-14 cm long by 3.5.4.5 cm wide and ripen to yellow or light orange. The fruit contain many seeds which are embedded in an edible, orange aril. Unlike the more common Passion Fruit, Banana Passion Fruit is fairly sweet, and when very ripe can be eaten out of hand.

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