P. mollissima The classic banana passionfruit, a bit hardier than P. edulis, a pink flower, and pleasant mild pulp and seeds within the soft yellow skin. P. pinnatistipula Flowers soft pink, not unlike P. mollissima, but with long blue filaments and round yellow skinned fruit. P. quadrangularis Giant granadilla. Stout, 4-angled stems, leaves 20x15cm. Ovate flowers, 12cm diameter, lavender blue, scented.
Skin is cooked too in the tropics.
A wonderfully ornate, stunning flower, often photographed. Both flower and ripe fruit have extremely attractive tropical-spicy aromas. Physalis peruviana The cape gooseberry. A Solanaceous fruit, pre-wrapped in its papery husk, and native to Peru and Chile. A sprawling perennial to just under a metre high, its orange-yellow little fruits are sweetly pleasant when ripe.