About six months ago we planted a few passion fruit seedlings. We just harvested our first two ripe fruit.
Passion fruit is one of our favorites for juice. It’s right up there with fresh-squeezed orange juice, biribá, cupuaçu, and açai.
Passion fruit has the most exquisite blossoms. The whole vine is worth growing just to see the blossoms, and smell their fragrance. And then we get the fruit too, like a bonus.
Passion fruit blossom.
Passion fruit grows on a vine and turns yellow when it is ripe.
Unripe passion fruit.
- Our first two ripe passion fruit.
Yara gave us a cactus plant. Bella planted it in a little pot outside. It is now about 4 feet high. Cactus! Here in the Amazon! It is growing just a few feet from our passion fruit vines.
incredible, well there have to be some perks for living in the “wilds” 🙂 marg B
That is interesting. I saw passion fruit blossoms in the nursery one time. I stood and marvelled at the detail and beauty and was sorry I didn’t have my camera with me. I didn’t know the name of the flower……now I know!! 🙂
Interesting how the cactus is growing so fast. Maybe it will surprise you with bloom. margaret