Sunday, October 2, 2011

This plant is one of the five species new to science found in the Parque Estadual Cristalino in Brazil

passiflora mostly perennial climbing vine with small numbers to be trees, vines, shrubs, small trees or annuals, scientists study the chemical ecology and evolution - has been used and passiflora the insects as models for many years, more than 500 species of passiflora is known around the world, with nearly half of the proposed subgenus is endemic to North America with no problems.

survey of plants of the Parque Estadual Cristalino in northeast Mato Grosso, Brazil, in 3500 that has been identified by scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the University of Sao Paulo

five species new to science has been accepted by the collection so far, including the beautiful red flowers of the new Passiflora cristalina

. in the past.

passiflora only produce more flowers and fruits growing on the roof of their collections, which prevents adequate

conservation status of the new flowers that have not been evaluated, although the area where it was discovered under a log, agriculture, and the pressure of settlement

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