When time and funding permit, each flower (each plant species) will have its own page, and its own PDF, and eventually its own PPT so that professors and students have plenty of material on Guatemala (and Honduras, etc) to study.

Heliconia adflexa, Coban, Guatemala, Hotel Monja Blanca, FLAAR, by Nicholas Hellmuth

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Bibliography on Maracuyá, Passiflora quadrangularis L.
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Passiflora Foetida at road to Parque Nacional Yaxha, May 5, 2021. Photo by David Arrivillaga

Passiflora foetida is a wild passion fruit native from Central and South America. Its leaves, bracts and petioles are covered by a sticky whitish hairiness, which gives off the characteristic odor. The bracts serve as insect traps and also possess the mechanism to digest the trapped insects to obtain free aminoacids, that’s why it is considered a carnivorous or protocarnivorous plant. Is commonly used as an ornamental plant, but it also has gastronomic and medical applications.

PDF, Articles, Books on Passiflora foetida

  • MOHANASUNDARI, C., NATARAJAN, D., SRINIVASAN, K., UMAMAHESWARI, S. and A. RAMACHANDRAN
  • 2007
  • Antibacterial properties of Passiflora foetida L. – a common exotic medicinal plant. African Journal of Biotechnology. Vol. 6 (23), pp. 2650-2653.

    Available Online:
    www.ajol.info/index.php/ajb/article/view/58170
  • NATARAJAN, T., KUMARAVEL, A. and R. PALANIVELU
  • 2016
  • Extraction and characterization of natural cellulosic fiber from Passiflora foetida stem. International Journal of Polymer Analysis and Characterization. Vol. 21, Issue 6.

    Available Online:
    www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1023666X.2016.1168636
  • SASIKALA, V., SARAVANAN, S. and R. PARIMELAZHAGAN
  • 2011
  • Analgesic and anti–inflammatory activities of Passiflora foetida L. Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine. Vol. 4, Issue 8, Pages 600-603

 

Suggested webpages with photos and information on Passiflora foetida

www.biodiversidadvirtual.org/herbarium/Passiflora-foetida-img324714.html
General information

www.bio.utexas.edu/courses/bio406d/images/pics/pas/passiflora_foetida.htm
Useful photos for identify Passiflora foetida

https://botany.org/home/resources/carnivorous-plants-insectivorous-plants.html
Information

https://fuedei.org/la-doble-vida-de-passiflora-foetida/
Information

https://www.monaconatureencyclopedia.com/passiflora-foetida/?lang=es
Information

 

First posted September 7, 2020.
Written by Vivian Hurtado, FLAAR Mesoamerica

 

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