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Passiflora edulis
Also called Passion fruit, Common Passionfruit, Water Lemon, Passionflower, Yellow Passion Fruit
Passion fruit (Passiflora edulis) is a vigorous tropical vine grown for its juicy, seedy fruit, which is eaten fresh and juiced. It needs warmth, frost protection and a sturdy support to climb on.
Passiflora edulis, commonly known as passion fruit, is a vine species of passion flower native to southern Brazil, through Paraguay, and northern Argentina. The fruit is a pepo, a type of botanical berry, round to oval, either yellow or dark purple at maturity, with a soft to firm, juicy interior filled with numerous seeds.
The plant is cultivated commercially in tropical and subtropical areas for its sweet, seedy fruit. This is both eaten and juiced, with the juice often added to other fruit juices to enhance aroma.
Passion fruit is widely grown in tropical and semitropical regions of the world. In the United States, it is cultivated in Florida, Hawaii, and California. It generally has to be protected from frost, although certain cultivars have survived light frosts after heavy pruning of affected areas.
The species is native to the region of southern Brazil through Paraguay to northern Argentina.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Passiflora edulis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
