---and while you're at it, which passionfruit IN PARTICULAR (genus or whatever) is the one you want to grow to eat/juice? I know they can take over as quick as Kudzu, so I want some FOOD for my effort! Anyone? cora

I just got some from Jim and Sally Lee. They are long time members (and leaders) of the Tampa Bay area Rare Fruits and are an encyclopedia of tropical fruit info.

You can meet them at every USF Botanical Gardens Sale.

Sally told me that the yellow are more sour then the red. I made a drink out of the 4 yellow by scooping out the center pulp and seeds and blending with water and sweetener. Fantastically delicious.

For the red, I scooped out the seeds as carefully as I could and now have them planted in 2 places in the yard and 5 or 6 peat pots.

Thats all I know. I will keep you posted on developments.

Purple passionfruit is the more typical edible kind. Even the purple there is variability in how sweet the fruit is. Mine I've been harvesting lately are a good mix of sweet and tart. I've tasted another which was not tart, all sweet. I've read if you eat the seeds and flesh from one passionfruit, you get 12g or 48% of your daily value of fiber.

Gary

are the red passiflora more or less aggressive than the yellow? and, where can one buy red fruiting passiflora?

The purple taste much better than the yellow but I think they are equally aggressive. I get all my friends fruit since she doesn't like it. Best deal in town, I get the fruit without having to have the space for such an aggressive vine and she gets the flowers and butterflys. I do grow a couple smaller passion vines for my flying friends but they don't produce edible fruit.

Ill, I don't think the red produce an edible fruit. Seems like it produces a little thing that I don't think is edible. And I understand the plant is toxic to any butterfly which tries to use it as a host plant.

Gary

I have a red flowered passion vine that does not produce fruit. There are always butterflies and larvae on the plant. It does not seem to be toxic to them.

darn, gary, i meant PURPLE. are the purples as aggressive? are they as prolific?

Purple is prolific like the rest, if they like their conditions. Nikkers, might google about the red, its been posted here more than once, I don't know from first hand knowledge myself. Here is a pic of my trellis which has one growing on it, it took less than a year to cover it. Got to harvest fruit starting a couple months ago. They taste great, had a couple yesterday!

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is it true it is a 'short lived' vine? I read somewhere that after 3 years it slows down with fruit production, declines and should be replaced.

Evelyn

When speaking of the "red" and "yellow" ones I got from the Lees, I meant the color of the fruit itself.

Apologies for any confusion. I never saw the vines.

last question... how to start... seeds? cuttings? sources?

Looking for someone who is willing to share some cuttings of fruit bearing edible passion. I will pay for postage. I am working on a tropical project in my basement and am trying to collect as many tropical species of fruit bearing plants that can be container grown. So if you have some and are willing to share please let me know.
kadmol@comcast.net
Thank you very very much.

Seeds have worked fine for me.

Gary