What is this flower?

Passion flower/fruit

It is a passion flower and the fruit is a passion fruit. I believe it's name comes from the way the stamin looks like a cross. Passion of the Christ. I may be wrong about that. Google it. It is very delicious.

YIPPEEEEEEE !!!!!! I have heard of them, never knew what they would look like. They sure are beautiful flowers!

How will I know when it is ripe to eat ? (test it on my husband maybe ?) 😛

Thanks SO much for the quick replies ! This message board has the best people !!!

wait till the fruit turns yellow! Some will turn purple, but most yellow. You can wait till they fall off the vine and harvest off the ground. Most are a cross between sweet and sour. Eats the little seeds and the juice.

how big in diameter is the fruit?
Is that what I see people selling along side of the roads? what they sell appear to be in bunches kind of like grapes.

Wait till you see the pink variety.. They are beautiful. Kind of exotic looking and almost unreal that they are flowers. The first time I saw one, i thought it was fake 🙂

how big in diameter is the fruit?
Is that what I see people selling along side of the roads? what they sell appear to be in bunches kind of like grapes.

Those are Genips

Hi Suzette - the one you picked is not ripe. 😉 The outside should be all yellow. If ripe and picked from the tree the skin will usually be smooth. If you wait until they fall off the tree they tend to be a little older, the skin might be a bit wrinkly rather than smooth - that's OK - the older ones actually seem to be sweeter. The inside of a ripe fruit will also be yellow and it is a watery/juicy thin flesh with small seeds. The juice is used to make a popular drink, passion-fruit juice. Basically just the juice from the passion-fruit mixed with water. The little seeds in the fruit are edible but for the juice, strain them out, makes drinking it easier. Add some ice - very refreshing. Enjoy.

Hi Terry - Passion-fruit are between the size of say a golf ball and a tennis ball. They grow individually. The little bunches of fruit, like grapes, you see people selling on the roadside are genips.

We have done a few articles about local fruit for the VInow newsletter you might be interested in reading. They include photos of the fruit too.

-Genips

-Tamarind

-What's Growing in the Back Yard (Mango, Fig, Sapodilla, Carombola)

-What's Growing Part II (Limes, Avocado, Sugar Apple)

--Islander