Passiflora antioquiensis

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]

Passiflora antioquiensis
Passiflora antioquiensis flower
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
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 H.Karst.
Synonyms
P. van–volxemii (Hook.) Triana & Planch. Tacsonia van-volxemii Hook.