| Passiflora antioquiensis | |
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| Passiflora antioquiensis flower | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malpighiales |
| Family: | Passifloraceae |
| Genus: | Passiflora |
| Species: | P. antioquiensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Passiflora antioquiensis | |
| Synonyms | |
Passiflora antioquiensis, the red banana passionfruit, is a species of flowering plant in the family Passifloraceae. [2] [3] It is native to Colombia and is named for the Antioquia Department in Colombia where the type specimen was collected. It was originally described by Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten in 1859. [4] It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. [5] With Passiflora tripartita var. mollissima it was hybridised in the Veitch Nurseries in Exeter, England in the 1870s to yield Passiflora × exoniensis , which has also gained the Award of Garden Merit. [6] [7] [8]
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