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pallida produced (4-)15-27(-33) seeds per fruit. The fruits turned purple 30-33
days after pollination.
Stegmaier (1973) reported that Dasiops passifloris McAlpine (Diptera: Family
Lonchaeidae) infests the fruits of P. pallida in southern Florida. He found that the
female fly oviposits on the fruits and the larvae feed on the arils and fruit flesh. In
this study, in which he collected a total of 1040 wild passion fruits from P. pallida
occurring on a single farm in Hialeah, Florida, he also found that the mature fruit
may contain from 4 to 17 seeds per fruit (Stegmaier, 1973).
Passiflora pallida is a pest plant where it occurs in many areas of the Old
World (Fig. 5). In Papua, Indonesia, Neville Kemp reports that the probable
disperser of P. pallida is the Northern Common Cucscus (Phalanger orientalis).
Figure 8.4. Passiflora pallida from Papua, Indonesia, illustrating the invasive
potential of the species in that region. Photo by N. Kemp of the Indo-Pacific
Conservation Alliance.