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Giant Granadilla
Passiflora quadrangularis
Giant Granadilla is a huge tropical vine that carries the largest fruit in the passionflower genus - greenish-yellow pods up to 8 inches long. The ripe fruit is eaten raw, cooked or made into drinks, the immature fruit is steamed or boiled as a vegetable, and the mature root is roasted and eaten like yam - but only cooked: raw, the root is a potent narcotic and poisonous, and other raw parts of the plant are poisonous too, so it is never something to browse, feed to stock, or chop and drop where animals graze. It needs true tropical warmth to flower at all, with nights staying above about 16 C, so it only makes sense outdoors where frost never happens or under heated cover with real room to climb.
Record at a glance
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full Sun · Partial Sun
- USDA zone
- USDA 10–12
- Soil
- Loam · Clay
- Moisture
- Well-Drained · Moist
Vertical layer
Vine- Soil pH
- 6–7
- Plant type
- Vine
- Mature height
- 32.8–49.2 ft
- Mature spread
- 3.3–4.9 ft
- Plant spacing
- 24–36 in
- Root type
- Tap
- Spread pattern
- None
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