Tontelea passiflora
(Vell.) Lombardi
CelastraceaeFruit
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Fruit
The fruit is eaten.
Where to Find It
It is a tropical plant. It grows on the edge of the rainforest and up to 1,200 m above sea level.
Amazon, Bolivia, Brazil, Central America, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Panama, Peru, South America, Suriname, Venezuela,
How to Identify
A creeper. It grows 2.5-6 m long. The leaves are 7-27 cm long by 2-12 cm wide. They are narrowly oval and taper to the tip. The fruit are 16-17 cm long by 8-11 cm wide.
Names & Synonyms
Abacate-do-mato, Castanha-mineira, Cipo-flora, Guapomo, Quere mati, Querimati
Clercia passiflora Vell.Tontelea fluminensis (Peyr.) A. C. Sm.
and others
References (4)
- Kermath, B. M., et al, 2014, Food Plants in the Americas: A survey of the domesticated, cultivated and wild plants used for Human food in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean. On line draft. p 870
- Roa, J. A. G. & Boada, D. S. G., 2018, Fundación para el Fortalecimiento de la Fruticultura y Plantas Alimenticias no Convencionales en Colombia. (As Tontelea ovalifolia)
- Torre, de la, L., et al, 2008, Enciclopedia de las Plantas Útiles del Ecuador. Herbario QCA. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. p 381 (As Tontelea ovalifolia)
- Zambrana, P, et al, 2017, Traditional knowledge hiding in plain sight – twenty-first century ethnobotany of the Chácobo in Beni, Bolivia. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2017) 13:57 (As Tontelea ovalifolia subsp. richardii)
