Indigenous to the Amazon basin extending from Peru to eastern Brazil, is a bounteous vine that extends beyond 20 feet. Very attractive flowers with its red curved tepals and striking bands of purple and white on a fringed corona. The unique flowers of this plant sport eight concentric coronas, the most found in any known plant, and give way to a yellow to bright orange fruit which is prized for its juicy, perfumed, and pleasantly tasting pulp. The fruit finds its way into direct consumption, beverages, and sorbets, while the leaf extracts have found a niche in the Brazilian pharmaceutical industry for their anxiolytic properties. The vine has earned the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. .
Photographed in Quindio, Colombia.