Passion fruit

Passiflora edulis

fruit

A round fruit with a wrinkled shell, from a vine of South America, from southern Brazil to Paraguay; its tart, fragrant pulp is eaten with its crunchy seeds.

Origin

Brazil and Paraguay

Season (United States)

all year round · grows in your region

Preparation

It is cut in half and the pulp eaten with a teaspoon, seeds included: they are crunchy and edible. The shell is not eaten. It is ripe when its skin is wrinkled.

Did you know?

Around 1700, missionaries in Brazil saw in its flower the emblems of the crucifixion and called it the “flower of the five wounds”; hence its name, passion flower.