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Passion Fruit
Passiflora edulis
Passion Fruit is a vigorous evergreen climber from South America that fruits fast - flowering within a year of planting and yielding 5 to 15 pounds from a vine that's barely one season old - though each vine only stays productive for three or four years even in ideal conditions, so replanting is routine rather than a failure. The fruit tastes like orange with an acid edge, eaten fresh once the skin wrinkles, juiced, or cooked into syrups and baked goods. It cannot take real cold: mature vines shrug off a few degrees of frost but die outright after prolonged freezing weather, so anywhere winters bite it either lives in a large container moved under cover or gets treated as a fast one-season planting.
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Growing profile
- Sun
- Full Sun
- USDA zone
- USDA 10–12
- Soil
- Sand · Loam
- Moisture
- Well-Drained · Moist
Vertical layer
Vine- Soil pH
- 6–7.5
- Plant type
- Vine
- Mature height
- 10–15 ft
- Mature spread
- 3–5 ft
- Plant spacing
- 3–5 ft
- Root type
- Fibrous-shallow
- Spread pattern
- Seed
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