Passion Fruit

Maracuja! Passiflora edulis var flavicarpa is the yellow fruited form of Passion Fruit that is most often processed for juice. The plant grows as a rambling vine that produces glossy, dark-green, three lobed leaves that have a lush tropical feel. It climbs using tendrils that wrap around small diameter objects like wire or twigs and can ramble up and over shrubs or structures several meters high. Intricate and delicate purple and white flowers are produced during the summer months and if pollinated properly produces the delicious and exotic passion fruits.

The unusual flowers are up to 9 cm across and have a light green center, long, white, curly filaments, and 10 white tepals (5 petals and 5 petal-like sepals) with dark purple at their base. The flowers are followed by round to egg-shaped, up to 9 cm in diameter, yellow fruit with soft, loose, juicy, yellow to orange pulp surrounding black seeds. Passion fruit are round to oval and about the size of a grapefruit. Flower Color: White to tinged purple
Flowering Season: Spring, Summer, Fall