400+ Passionfruit (Passiflora edulis) Seeds Delicious Fruit Garden Plant
Brand: Seeds Of Strength
This large-fruited, red skinned passionfruit has just been released onto the market. A hardy, vigorous, evergreen vine for warm sunny positions. It bears extra large, sweet, passionfruit in abundance through Autumn, Winter and Spring.<br> <br> Vigorous vine that can reach between 6 - 10 meters, very aromatic, of orange pulp, bright, sweet and very tasty. <br> <br> It supports temperatures up to (- 5 ¡ã C) after well established and adapted very well at altitudes that can range from sea level up to 1500 meters. <br> <br> The pulp of the fruit is very tasty, it has musk fragrance that is used to aromatize desserts and pies. <br> <br> Its fruits are usually consumed in natura, in the preparation of juices, jams, jellies and ice creams.<br> <br> Growing Instructions:<br> The seeds have a hard seed coat that has to be treated, or scarified, in order for water to enter the seeds so that they can sprout.<br> <br> 1. To scarify the seeds, sand the seed coat lightly with sandpaper. <br> <br> 2. Soak the seeds in warm water for 24 hours.<br> <br> 3. Plant the seeds ? to 1 inch deep in moist, well-drained potting soil.<br> <br> 4. Keep the seeds warm. The seeds have a better germination rate in temperatures between 70 to 85 degrees F.<br> <br> 4. Water the seeds.<br> <br> 5. Fertilize the plants when they have several leaves and then fertilize them every few weeks during the growing season.
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.