Plants · La Saladita, Guerrero

Stinking Passionflower

Passiflora foetida

Spanish: granadilla de culebra

Stinking Passionflower (Passiflora foetida)
Photographed by zihuadean on iNaturalist · CC-BY-NC

Passiflora foetida (common names: stinking passionflower, wild maracuja, bush passion fruit, wild water lemon, stoneflower, love-in-a-mist, or running pop) is a species of passion flower that is native to the southwestern United States (southern Texas and Arizona), Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, and much of South America. It has been introduced to tropical regions around the world, such as Southeast Asia, South Asia, Hawaii, Africa, and The Maldives. It is a creeping vine like other members...

TaxonomyMagnoliopsida › Malpighiales › Passifloraceae
Local records20 research-grade observations within about 50 km of La Saladita (the survey box also takes in Zihuatanejo, Ixtapa and Troncones)
Global records23,835 on iNaturalist
Most recent records2023 – 2025
Months of the 8 most recent records
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Recent local sightings

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Cite as: “Stinking Passionflower (Passiflora foetida) at La Saladita”, La Saladita Field Guide, lasaladita.com/species/passiflora-foetida/, updated 2026-09-26. Observation counts and months come from iNaturalist research-grade records within about 50 km of 17.8375°N, 101.7606°W (the survey box also takes in Zihuatanejo, Ixtapa and Troncones); summary text from Wikipedia where present.