Passion Flower ‘Giant Granadilla’ (Passiflora quadrangularis)

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Passion Flower ‘Giant Granadilla’ (Passiflora quadrangularis)Grown both for its showy flowers and fruit, Giant Granadilla is the largest fruiting passion flower with fruit reaching the size of a football! The ripe fruit turns a golden color and is a sweet edible fleshy treat. The pulp is used commercially in passion fruit juices. The large 4 5 flowers have uniquely long twisting purple filaments. In the northern latitudes it tends to be a fall bloomer and the flowers need to be hand pollinated to produce fruit.

especially during the winter months

living gifts with edible rewards

has leathery green leaves that can be harvested any time of the year to use fresh or dried for later use

We recommend pruning when the plant is young to promote a full

In the heat of summer and the cold of winter

this native of Ecuador is easy to manage in a hanging basket or pot

Flowers appear from spring to fall

it’s a prolific producer of small edible oranges

Vining by nature

which lends itself nicely to limited space

sweetly scented blooms which appear year-round on this stiff-stemmed vine

and the Miniature Pink Passion Flower responds well to hard pruning making it quite manageable for a vining species