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Passiflora
tripartita
(formerly Passiflora mollissima or Passiflora
mixta)
banana
passion-fruit, northern banana passion-fruit
Family
PASSIFLORACEAE
 Reproduced
from
Common
Weeds of New Zealand
by Bruce Roy, Ian Popay, Paul Champion, Trevor James & Anis
Rahman
ISBN 0 473 09760 5
by kind permission of the
New
Zealand Plant Protection Society
Publication or other use of images or descriptive
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A large, vigorous,
scrambling, smothering, evergreen perennial vine climbing up to
10 m high by means of its tendrils. The flowers are large and pink.
Fruits are green, ripening to long, thin yellow passion-fruits.
- Flowers Hanging
singly, pink, up to 7 cm in diameter. Flower tube 80-95 mm long,
long in relation to perianth lobes. Flowers Jan-Dec.
- Fruit Green,
turning yellow when ripe, up to 12 cm long by 3 cm across, thin-skinned,
sweet, with orange edible pulp.
- Leaves Three-lobed
with lobes 5-14 cm long, middle lobe the largest, toothed. Toothed
kidney-shaped stipules up to 30 mm wide with a tapering, awl-shaped
apex.
- Stems Densely
hairy. Young shoots are weakly-angled.
Habitat
Hedges, trees, plantations,
forest margins and waste places.
Distribution
Passiflora tripartita
var. mollissima (formerly Passiflora mollissima)
has upper leaf surfaces moderately to densely covered in short
hairs, and is found in scattered NI localities, especially in
Wellington, and in Marlborough and Nelson in SI. Passiflora
tripartita var. azuayensis (formerly Passiflora
mixta) has upper leaf surfaces hairless or almost so, and
is most commonly found in Wellington, Canterbury and Otago. Both
originally from tropical South America.
Related
species
Passiflora tarminiana,
also previously classified as Passiflora mixta, is commonest
in northern NI and is similar to Passiflora tripartita,
but with small, deciduous stipules, a shorter floral tube, longer
petal/sepal lobes, and spindle-shaped fruit. It is also less hairy
and has paler pink flowers. True Passiflora mixta is
only known from the Waitakere Ranges in western Auckland and one
site in Marlborough. This species has a hairy floral tube and
salmon-pink flowers. Blue passion-flower (Passiflora caerulea)
has five-lobed leaves, non-tubular white flowers with a ring of
purple filaments, up to 9 cm across, and round yellow fruit up
to 9 cm in diameter. It occurs on forest margins, scrub and hedgerows
from North Auckland to coastal Otago.
Comments
Banana passion-fruit
and northern banana passion-fruit are listed on the National
Pest Plant Accord (see Introduction for details). Both banana
passion-fruit and blue passion-flower are subject to Pest Plant
Management Strategies in several regions of NZ. Details are available
from individual regional councils or unitary authorities.
Derivation
of botanical name
Passiflora
(Lat.) = passion flower; tripartita (Lat.) = having three
parts; mollissima (Lat.) = very soft; azuayensis
from Azuay, a province in southern central Ecuador.
Web-notes:
Weed Links
On this site
Reproduced from Common Weeds
of New Zealand:
External Links
 Weedbusters
New Zealand
- Weedbusters is a weeds awareness and education programme that aims to
protect New Zealand's environment from the increasing weed problem.
 New
Zealand Plant Conservation Network Weeds Fact Sheets
- Search for 1500 weed fact sheets mainly derived from the Department of
Conservation's BIOWEB weeds database.
 New
Zealand Plant Protection Society
- Their main objective: "To pool and exchange information on the biology
of weeds, invertebrate and vertebrate pests, pathogens and beneficial organisms
and methods for modifying their effects."
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 New
Zealand Landcare Trust
- Plant Pest information including Pictures, Distribution Maps, References,
Environmental Effects and Control.
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- New
Zealand Aquatic Weeds
- Hosted by the weed management group of NIWA (National Institute of Water
and Atmospheric Research).
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- Weed
Control Manual for the Bay of Plenty
- Weeds information compiled by Environment Bay of Plenty.
-
 Massey
University Weeds Database- A site providing information about New Zealand weeds and weed control.
It has a series of pages showing pictures of New Zealand weeds, notes on
identification and control. It also provides information on a university
paper entitled Controlling Weeds.
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- Canterbury
Weed Guide
- A weed identification guide prepared by the Christchurch City Council.
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- Australian
Plants as Weeds
- Part of the Association of Societies for Growing Australian Plants website.
- Department
of Agriculture Western Australia
- Collection of weed resources from the Department of Agriculture, Government
of Western Australia
- Weed
Society of Victoria
- Promoting wider awareness and interest in weeds and their management.
Includes a useful page of links
to other weed societies.
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- Tamar
Valley Weeds Strategy
- Listing of common and botanical names, images, and information including
control methods for weeds found in Tasmania, and also on the Australian
mainland.
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- New
Jersey Weed Gallery, USA
- Listing of common and botanical names and images, plus a small amount
of information for weeds that cause problems in the USA.
- Invasive
and Exotic Species of North America
- Images and other information from the University of Georgia.
- University
of California
- Weed Photo Gallery, with common and botanical names.
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- World
of Weeds
- Weed-related resources including weed science, practical tools, gardening
tips about controlling weeds, and environmental news updates.
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- Invasive
Species Specialist Group
- "The ISSG aims to reduce threats to natural ecosystems and the native
species they contain by increasing awareness of invasive alien species,
and of ways to prevent, control or eradicate them."
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- Invasive
Woody Plants
- Collection of research and associated literature for invasive woody plants
in the tropics and the temperate zone.
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- WeedScience.com
- Site that includes a comprehensive collection of weed images from around
the world.
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 Books
on Weeds from FetchBook.Info
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