FREE: Passiflora Quadrangularis (Granadilla)

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This plant is a native to Central and South America and is heavily cultivated throughout the Americas. The giant of the passionfruit vines. It was growing in Barbados in 1750 and is present in several other Caribbean Islands and in Bermuda. It is commonly cultivated, and sometimes escapes from cultivation or becomes truly wild, from Mexico to Brazil and Peru.
wonderful plant for over a fence or stunning on a pergola where the large green leaves can provide shade all year
Good amounts of Vitamin A, protein and carbohydrates.
Fruit can be cooked green like a marrow or ripened and eaten fresh. The pulp can be used in a dessert or made into sherbet. The flesh of the ripe fruit, with the inner skin removed, is cut up and added to papaya, pineapple and banana slices in fruit salads, seasoned with lemon or lime juice. It is cooked with sugar and eaten as dessert, or is canned in syrup; sometimes candied; but it is so bland that it needs added flavouring. In Indonesia, the flesh and arils are eaten together with sugar and shaved ice. Australians add a little orange juice and usually serve the dish with cream. They also use the stewed flesh and raw arils together as pie filling. The whole arils can be eaten raw without removing the seeds. Jelly can be made from the unpeeled flesh boiled for 2 hours and the pulp simmered separately. The juice strained from both is combined and, with added sugar and lemon juice, is boiled until it jells.

(10 Seeds)
Usda growing zone: 9-11

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