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NZ passion vine
| Common
name: NZ passion vine, kohia |
Botanical
name: Passiflora tetrandra |
| Family: Passifloraceae
(passion-flower family) |
Maximum height: n/a |
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Where found:
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- Lowland forests, forest margins
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| Description: |
- A high climbing liana up to 10 metres tall that forms thick
masses over trees and shrubs, soft-wooded with flexible cylindrical
branches, slender branchlets and tendrils
- Alternate, dark green, leathery leaves with wavy margins are
oval/oblong with pointed tips (5-10cm x 2-3cm), the surface is
glossy with a pale undersurface
- Cream flowers singly or in groups up to 4, flowering from October
to December dioecious
- Leathery orange fruit 25-30mm long, inedible but popular with
birds
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PHOTO: Peter Winter

PHOTO: DOC
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