Woody, glabrous climber. Leaves deeply 3-lobed, up to 18 cm long and 17 cm wide; lobes usually acute; margins regularly toothed; petiole 1.5–2 cm long, with 2 stalked glands near apex; stipules linear, c. 10 mm long. Flowers 6–7 cm across; bracts 1–2 cm long, green; sepals keeled, c. 3 cm long, green outside, white inside; petals c. 2.5 cm long, white; outer corona of threads in 2 series, green at base, purple in middle, white at apex; inner corona membranous; anthers and ovary subtended by a stalk c. 2 cm long, ovary-stalk hardly extending further. Berry ovoid to globose, 4–5 cm long, 3–4 cm diam., purple. Flowers mostly Oct.–Jan.
MuM, GipP, OtP, EGL, EGU, HSF. Also naturalised WA, SA, Qld, NSW, NI, LHI. Native to Brazil. Widely cultivated for its edible fruit, occasionally naturalised at margins of warm temperate rainforest in East Gippsland.
