This is the last of my passionflower and passionfruit photos for now.
I took this series of shots a couple of days ago to show how the fruit takes shape.
There are lots of fruit on the vine now, all at different stages but they aren't ripe yet as you can see.
On the left hand photo you can see the fruit beginning to peep through the curled up flower and the next one it is showing even more. The two passion fruit on the right are really big so I hope the possums don't get to them before we do.
Interesting series ...I had the same kind of passionflowers once in my garden in Gabon, West Africa and only had 1 year of fruit...no matter how much I tried, fertilizer, extra soil, water ...such a shame , never understood what went wrong
I had a passion fruit, that I thought I'd managed to kill. I bought another one and planted it next to the original. They both ended up being the strongest, healthiest fruit bearers ever - until they dragged the fence down too
Beautiful sequence of shots. I have never seen this fruit but my wife says you can buy it from supermarkets. However she hasn't taken a fancy for it so no passion fruit for our table.
I have seen Passion flowers....we had one in our childhood greenhouse but I never saw or associated passion fruits with them so this is very interesting to see!
This is one of the reasons why 365 is so much fun- I'd never seen passion fruit on the vine before- great collage! I hope you get the fruit before the possums do too!
@momamo This year is the most fruit we have had and I am wondering if the lack of rain has helped them.
@casablanca You wait until the fruit shrivels on the vine and then cut them in half and scrape out the pulp. It is the pulp that you eat. Very nice on pavlova or icecream and also made into passionfruit icing on cakes.
@yorkshirekiwi We planted another vine last year too and since then we have had lots of fruit.
Ian
We feed the possums either banana, apple or pear each night in the garden at the other side of our house so hopefully they will be distracted away from the passionfruit.
@momamo This year is the most fruit we have had and I am wondering if the lack of rain has helped them.
@casablanca You wait until the fruit shrivels on the vine and then cut them in half and scrape out the pulp. It is the pulp that you eat. Very nice on pavlova or icecream and also made into passionfruit icing on cakes.
@yorkshirekiwi We planted another vine last year too and since then we have had lots of fruit.