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Passionfruit
Passiflora
edulis - Large Black eating
A perennial climber native to Central and Southern America. A
thick, skinned berry passionfruit contain a sweet, fragrant pulp
that surrounds numerous edible black seeds, which are suitable for
a wide range of culinary uses.
The vines bear fruit after about 15 months and ripen between Feb/March.
Passion fruit grow best in a sunny frost-free site protected from
cold wind. They need a support such as a trellis or wire fence to
carry the vine.
Passionfruit will adapt to a wide range of soils but need good
drainage to avoid root diseases and do best in a loamy soil that
has organic matter added. The vines need plenty of water in the
summer to prevent the fruit from wrinkling and are completely ripe
when the fruit has turned from green to black.
Passiflora edulis f.flavicarpa
-Yellow
Yellow passion fruit about 5 cm in size with yellow skin and greyed
yellow-orange pulp that is aromatically scented and flavoured. Not
to be confused with the very rampant Banana passionfruit Passiflora
mollissima . Flowers are fragrant, petals white with centre
corona blue. Sorry not available in 2009
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