Not native to India...AND NEWLY OPENED FLOWER LOOKS VERY PRETTY LIKE ANY GARDEN variety PASSIFLORA species... http://www.plantoftheweek.org/image/passifloraf.jpg
Now naturalized in most tropical areas... is on a noxious weed list: http://www.invasivespecies.net/database/species/ecology.asp?si=341&fr=1&sts=&lang=EN Though it seems to have some nice redeeming value... I liked the last sentence in WIKI .. that its saponin richness is useful in making nondetergent sahmpoo/soap... love that... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passiflora_foetida And Australian site that tracks useful plants list it: http://www.newcrops.uq.edu.au/listing/passiflorafoetida.htm GO FIGURE...!!! Edict that Trash of one is gold of other....must be true !! About the shampoo soap....wonder if someone has made it??? WHAT INTRIGUED ME THE MOST IS A PAPER BY DR RADHARAMANI of Bangalore... which states that the intricate network of the bracts on the surface of the fruit makes this plant a protocarnivorous, or borderline carnivorous... ((Radhamani, T. R., L. Sudarshana, et al. (1995). Defense and carnivory: Dual role of bracts in Passiflora foetida. Journal of Biosciences Bangalore 20(5): 657-664. {a} Promotion Res. Dev. Efforts Selected Crops., PC Unit, Bangalore 560 065, India )) I could access only the abstract... the pdf needs to be bought at springerlink site!!! DOES ANY ONE AT EFLORA HAVE ACCESS TO DR RADHARAMANI or to this paper?? Usha di =========== On Aug 20, 5:42 am, Balkar Arya <balkara...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes P foetida > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 11:32 PM, Dr Pankaj Kumar > <sahanipan...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > Yes this is Passiflora foetida. > > Pankaj > > > On Aug 19, 10:11 pm, Vijayasankar <vijay.botan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Looks like *Passiflora foetida*. > > > > Regards > > > > Vijayasankar Raman > > > National Center for Natural Products Research > > > University of Mississippi > > > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 11:51 AM, ravi g <ravi251...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I require your help in identification of this Passiflora species. I > > had > > > > photographed it in Bangalore growing wildly along the shores of the > > lakes. > > > > It is a wild creeper and it is surely not the passion fruit plant. I > > would > > > > be grateful if you could help me in identification of this species! > > -- > Regards > > Dr Balkar Singh > Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology > Arya P G College, Panipat > Haryana-132103 > 09416262964
