About Passiflora antioquiensis H.Karst.
Passiflora antioquiensis H.Karst., commonly called the red banana passionfruit, is a species of flowering plant that belongs to the passionflower family Passifloraceae. This species is native to Colombia, and it is named after the Colombian Antioquia Department, the location where its type specimen was collected. Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten originally formally described the species in 1859. Passiflora antioquiensis has received the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. In the 1870s, this plant was hybridized with Passiflora tripartita var. mollissima at Veitch Nurseries in Exeter, England to produce the hybrid Passiflora × exoniensis, which has also earned the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
