Woody, glabrous vine. Leaves 5-lobed, up to 8 cm long and 11 cm wide; lobes acute or obtuse; margins entire, but usually with a few glands on the distal part of the lobes; petiole 2–2.5 cm long, with 2–4 (rarely 6) stalked glands; stipules leafy, more or less reniform, attached laterally. Flowers 6–10 cm across; bracts c. 2.5 cm long, green; sepals keeled, 3–4 cm long, green outside, white or pink inside, terminated by thread-like tip to 1 cm long; petals c. as long as sepals, pale pink; outer corona of threads in 4 series, purple at base, white in middle, blue at apex; inner corona membranous and white in lower third, thread-like and dark purple above; anthers and ovary subtended by stalk c. 1 cm long, ovary-stalk hardly extending further. Berry ovoid, to 6 cm long and 4 cm diam., orange-yellow. Flowers c. Aug., Dec.