<em>Passiflora feotida</em> Immature Fruit (IMAGE)

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

<em>Passiflora feotida</em> Immature Fruit

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The diverse life forms found in the tropics like this immature fruit of the passion fruit species, Passiflora feotida, may be explained by a relatively simple concept: that voracious pathogens and predators thin out trees of the same species, leaving room for others.

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Steve Paton, STRI

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