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How is your passion flower doing this year? Is it the native perennial P. incarnata? I picked some wild fruits and they were all hollow with dry seeds, maybe not filling up due to drought?

May Lotito wrote:How is your passion flower doing this year? Is it the native perennial P. incarnata? I picked some wild fruits and they were all hollow with dry seeds, maybe not filling up due to drought?

I have white flowering that I planted from seeds I brought with us from our old place and also purple flowering from seeds from Richters ...both are still blooming a little and also have fruit.  I'll have to check the pulp? none seem ripe yet but feel full.

Both are p. incarnata.

We grow it mostly for the herb for tea and last year dried way too much so have mostly let it alone to ramble this year...have never made anything with the pulp although I do like the taste.

edited to add photos...lots of seeds in both white and purple flowering ones...I think we had some good rains that you did not?

The passion flowers are so beautiful! Seeds seem quite big compared to those of P. edulis. I ate some while traveling in the tropics. Local people just picked fruits hanging off the roof, sliced the ends off and squeezed pulp in the mouth. I remembered that was a red flowering one. I will grow a few vines next year.

Here is what the 5-color pepper turns out.