Passiflora ligularis (Grenadia / Sweet Grenadilla) 甜百香果
Passiflora ligularis
“Sweet Granadilla"
Passiflora ligularis
“Sweet Granadilla"
Passiflora ligularis, commonly known as Grenadilla or Sweet Grenadilla is a plant species in the Passiflora genus. See its flower from Wikipedia: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passiflora_ligularis
It is a fast growing climber with large leaves and it can grow to 14′. It is native to South America and has a strong but fragile, orange skin. The fruit has the shape and size of a plum. The shell is hard and shiny. The fruit contains a yellow, jelly-like pulp with a scattering of black edible seeds. The fruit has a sweet and very little sour flavour.
果實個頭不小,甜度也不錯,唯獨沒有足夠的果香和酸度來平衡其甜度.
I like its fruit size and sweetness but I do prefer sweet fragrant juice with balanced acidic flavour. Is there any ‘perfect’ passion fruit variety? Do you know any? I would like to grow few for its pretty flowers and delicious fruit!
我想找想種完美的百香果–有美花欣賞和好吃的水果的品種. 你知道有這種品種嗎?
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I just love passion Fruit!! We had them growing in my garden when I was younger and their flowers looked like something from outer space!
Indeed, I thought so, too! 🙂
Love this fruit,
🙂
While living in Brazil I learned to LOVE this fruit! They call it Maracuja.
They make a wonderful mousse of 1 can sweet condensed milk, 1/2 cup juice, 1 cup heavy cream.
Wip the cream, add the milk and juice, let set in the fridge for an hour or so. Enjoy!
I also use: 1 can sweet condensed milk, 1/2 cup of juice and 1 pkg Philly cheese as filling in a cheese cake, That yellow cake is perfect for easter!
I have some seeds a Brazilian friend brought me last year (it is to cold to grow in Sweden if you do not have a greenhouse)
I can send them in a letter to you if you do not feel uncomfortable to give me your address?
You can send the address to my mail, yvonne@akod.se
Thank you so much! I will email you! 🙂
Once I had a maracujá vine at the back yard, but I had to chop it up because of hundreds of caterpillars that loved its leaves.
Ha, even caterpillars love it! 🙂
I had caterpillars on mine too! I picked them in a plastic bag and threw them in the garbage. Later I got to know how dangerous caterpillars in can be!
I normally feed them to birds in a glass jar.
Smart 🙂
It is only natural and no waste! 🙂
I love the Passifloras. There are a few species hardy even to zone 5 with fragrant flowers, but the fruits are not very sweet. I often see the purple passionfruits available in stores here, but they’re like the McIntosh of Passionfruit. I had one Granadilla in Costa Rica years ago that knocked my socks off with flavor- it was so intensely delicious! I wish I knew which kind it was though. Maybe it was the Giant Granadilla?
Giant granadilla? Like this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Granadilla Wow, that sounds great! It will be nice to grow something that delicious! 🙂
When I was young in Taiwan, I had this kind of purplish red shell small circular passion fruit, its juice is so fragrant, juicy, sweet and balanced with some acidic flavour, which is so nice for juice and desert! I believe it is Passiflora edulis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passiflora_edulis
But perhaps the passion fruit you had even better?
I mean there are so many passionfruit it could truly be any one of them, this is just one of the species I know that grows in Costa Rica where I ate it. The passion fruit that you can get in ethnic supermarkets is usually Passiflora edulis, imported from New Zealand. The passionfruit I had was not as sweet and not sour. It was very fresh but unique, almost like pear flavored.
The one I like in Taiwan has very fragrant, yellow sweet juice with some sour flavour. (The fragrance is only from passion fruit.) Its acidic flavour is very good balance for fruit not just sweet. I mean if I just want very sweet thing I will have some sugar instead. 🙂
I’m not a fan of sour things except Citrus, so that’s just my preference coming through!
It is not that sour, just a hint of it to balance. 🙂
I must be sensitive to sour things, my mouth puckered when I ate that particular Passionfruit! The one in Costa Rica had no sourness to it at all though. Hmm I shall have to research this one…
The passion fruit I ate in this post is just sweet. I have lots of seeds if you want some.
The fruit look like sweet,I think it is delicious. can’t grow in Taipei ?
Sure it can grow in Taipei, it is from tropical climate so it likes hot weather but here in Toronto, they must move to indoors over winter to mid spring this period of time.
I grow Passiflora edulis. Beautiful purple and white flowers with dark purple fruit. I mix the juice with a honey, lemon, and a touch of vanilla and pour it over fruit salad or vanilla ice cream. Yum!!
Sounds so great! (mouth watering…)
Hmmm… that looks interesting.
Passion fruit is fairly easy to grow, you might want to try it! 🙂