Description Passiflora edulis is a very tasty passionfruit or granadilla commonly grown in the tropics for fruit production. ‘Panama Red’ produces large harvests of sweet, yet tangy fruit. The fruit is one third larger than regular varieties with reddish-purple skin and golden coloured custard-like edible pulp on the inside. Self-fertile but may produce more fruit in the presence of a different cultivar. On top of the delicious fruit, 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 safer: grow in containers that can be protected in winter in a sun room or as a houseplant. Photo credit: Wikipedia.
