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Vegan Potato Man

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Vine ID purple berries
« on: November 21, 2021, 11:01:17 PM »
Aloha!

I found this vine growing out front with purple berries, and they are green unripe. Hopefully the picture makes it through. Please let me know if it's deadly poison or not. Thanks!

Location is south Kona Hawai'i


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Re: Vine ID purple berries
« Reply #1 on: November 21, 2021, 11:02:50 PM »
The picture thumbnail looks really bad but if you click on it it gets better!

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Re: Vine ID purple berries
« Reply #2 on: November 22, 2021, 12:38:13 PM »
Looks to me suspiciously like Passiflora subrosa which we have in Florida growing wild as a native, and since the birds eat the fruits and then spread the seeds around vines can pop up anywhere, often on chainlink fencing.

I've tasted the ripe fruits, which are dark black-purple and look like what's in your photo and they run onto the insipid side and are neither sweet nor sour.

Another identifying characteristic is that the stem of the vine near the base is corky and tan colored.

This species is the larval food for a couple of our native butterflies here in west central Florida.

Have a look here:   https://florida.plantatlas.usf.edu/Plant.aspx?id=2080

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Re: Vine ID purple berries
« Reply #3 on: November 22, 2021, 02:53:38 PM »
Its a passiflora alright and there are several species with small dark fruit like that. It wont be deadly poison or a taste sensation

 

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