Passiflora vesicaria

about 1 month ago

Latin Name	Observation date	Location
Passiflora vesicaria	May 08 2025	Buket Alue Puteh, Aceh, Indonesia

Hi everyone, on this occasion I would like to show some beautiful flower photos growing freely in the wild, maybe some people are very familiar with the type of flower published today and especially for those who like to explore and consume wild fruits, this flower plant grows by climbing on other plants and there are also those that grow on empty land by climbing on dry soil.

Actually, this plant is very familiar in our city because the leaves of this plant are often used by the community as vegetables, some people who live in rural areas even take the time to hunt for the leaves of this plant as their vegetables and also to sell to traditional markets, the young leaves of the plant are very delicious especially when cooked with a typical Acehnese recipe (kuah plik), do you know this type of plant?

This is one of the wild plants that is popular with "rambusa" in Indonesia, while in Latin this plant is known as "Passiflora vesicaria", this one wild plant can be said to have many roles in the ecosystem, as I said above where the young leaves of this plant are often hunted by people to be used as vegetables, while the sweet fruit with seeds resembling passion fruit is very popular with fruit-eating hunters, in the past when our natural conditions were still stable and many species of birds lived, rambusa fruit was often enjoyed by magpie birds and we could see them dancing up close, but now everything has changed, thanks to human greed, magpie birds have no signs of their existence and rambusa fruit is widely ignored because there are no more connoisseurs.