Description: Purple Passion Flower is worth growing for its amazing flowers alone. It's also worth growing just for the fruit. It's so lush it creates shade. Butterflies love it. It will cover a trellis in a season, and once established needs little attention. Large, pendulous fruits start out green, then turn purple. They ripen about 80 days after flowering and are fully ripe when they've dropped off the vine and turned wrinkley. You can eat the juicy pulp sooner but it's sweeter and more fragrant if you wait. The fruits store quite a long time if you don't eat them up. Passiflora caerulea- Perennial. A hardy, fast-growing vine . attractive foliage and ornate, fragrant flowers which have snowy white petals with a captivating blue crown. Bright orange ovate fruits, known as Passionfruit, follow the blooms and are filled with deep red, flavorful pulp. These fruits are enjoyed fresh or used to enhance drinks, adding a unique twist to beverages. Moreover, the flowers and leaves are utilized in tea-making, renowned for their stress relieving properties. P. caerulea is one of the hardiest passionflowers and can withstand temperatures down to 10°F, dying back in colder climates but promptly regenerating from its roots the following year. Seeds have a hard, stubborn seed coat that requires pretreatment prior to sowing. Soak seeds for 24 hours in warm water. Sow in flats or pots filled with moist, sterile soil keeping soil temperature at 75-85°F. Cool temperatures can slow or cease germination, which is naturally slow and erratic.
Price: 3.99 USD
Location: Livingston, Texas
End Time: 2024-09-26T05:13:44.000Z
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Brand: PeavyTailor
Type: Passionflower
Features: Flowering
