Description Passiflora edulis is a very tasty passionfruit or granadilla commonly grown in the tropics for fruit production. ‘Bounty’ produces large harvests of sweet, yet tangy fruit. Though the fruit is smaller than other edible varieties, the sheer number of fruit more than makes up for this. Self-fertile but may produce more fruit in the presence of a different cultivar. The purple and white flowers are intricately beautiful and fragrant. A larval host plant for many butterflies which quickly grows to stay ahead of these munchers. Plants may be hardy in coastal BC in protected microclimates such as up against the sunny wall of a house where the stem is planted/buried six inches deeper than the soil surface. Plants are said to withstand -4 degrees Celsius. Or to be safe: grow in containers that can be protected in winter in a sun room or as a houseplant.
