400+ Passionfruit Passiflora edulis Seeds Delicious Fruit Garden...
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400+ Passionfruit (Passiflora edulis) Seeds Delicious Fruit Garden Plant
- Passiflora edulis, commonly called purple passion fruit, is a shallow-rooted, tendril-climbing, evergreen vine that typically grows to 10-15¡¯ long and to 3-5¡¯ wide and produces extremely showy bowl-shaped fragrant purple-white passionflowers (each to 3¡± wide) followed by edible, ovoid, purple passion fruits (to 2" across).
- This vine clings to supports by coiled tendrils. Individual flowers bloom for one day.
- Each flower has 5 greenish-white sepals, 5 white petals and a decorative corona of white filaments which are showy purple at the bases.
- Ripe fruits are edible off the vine or incorporated into a variety of food products such as beverages, jellies, fruit salads and sherbets.
- Three-lobed evergreen leaves (to 3-8" long) are finely-toothed, deep green and glossy above but dull green below. Young stems are tinged with red or purple. Glossy, three-lobed leaves (3-5" long) with serrate margins have two small glands on the stalks.