Plant · P-480

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.