The original post hasn't appeared here yet, so I'm piggybacking.
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[Peter Jason] wrote...
Looks like passionfruit.
It's a member of the same genus [Passiflora], but isn't one of
the passionfruits usually eaten by humans.
We had acres of this stuff growing on our back fence.
Does it have large purple fruit?
Not this one.
"gibikote" wrote in message
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hi.
please see the flower in this link.
the vine grows wild here (in India).
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=1837939
can we give it a specific name, and is it poisonous?
Yes, it's clearly _Passiflora foetida_ . The bracts dissected
into narrow sticky-glandular segments are characteristic of this
species.
Besides the widespread & weedy P. foetida, its group [subgenus
Dysosmia] also contains a few other closely related forms that
have been named as separate species, but I doubt these others are
introduced into India [they're tropical American, as was P. foetida
originally].
http://www.hear.org/pier/passiflora_foetida.htm
http://www.ciat.cgiar.org/ipgri/frui...%20foetida.htm
http://plants.usda.gov/cgi_bin/plant...i?symbol=PAFO2
http://www.passionflow.co.uk/feety.htm
http://www.passiflora.it/foetida.htm
http://www.hear.org/starr/hiplants/i...thumbnails.htm
http://www.tradewindsfruit.com/wild_water_lemon.htm
http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/news/c...a/text/218.htm
http://www.barbadine.com/pages/passi...etida_lien.htm
http://www.tropilab.com/passi-foetida.html
http://www.newcrops.uq.edu.au/listin...orafoetida.htm
http://irrecenvhort.ifas.ufl.edu/Inv...ra-foetida.pdf
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/imaxxpas.htm
http://www.formosa-verlag.de/english/site/photos.htm
One of the above cited:
Anil, K. N. and N. Ravi (1992). A taxonomic note on Passiflora foetida
Linn. in India. Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany 16(1): 69-72.
{a} Dep. Botany, S. N. Coll., Kollam-691 001, India
The fruits are evidently edible.
http://medind.nic.in/imvw/imvw14993.html
is interesting; it suggests the glandular bracts of P. foetida
may be similar in behavior and function to the insect-catching
and digesting glands of "carnivorous plants".
cheers