Tropicals & Tender Perennials: collecting passiflora seeds, 1 by Clare_CA

Clare_CA wrote:
Julie, your first one looks like P. edulis. This passiflora usually bears fruit easily, and the seeds are true to the parent plant. I usually have a pod after every flower. The pod is ripe when it turns purple and becomes wrinkled. You can even wait for the fruit to fall off the vine. Then, cut the fruit open and rinse the seeds in a strainer to remove the gel covering before drying and storing.

The second flower looks like Passiflora Alata "Ruby Glow." P. Quadrangularis looks a little different. See this link: http://seeds.thompson-morgan.com/us/en/product/7265/1 P. Alata "Ruby Glow" rarely produces fruit on its own, but I suppose it could if it were pollinated by another species.

Many hybrids end up being sterile, and if they do produce fruit, they end up being empty. The ones that do produce edible fruit reliably are passilfora species like P. edulis and P. quadrangularis to name a couple.