I don't need the seeds for P. incarnata since they run rampant all over the yard. The fruit is no longer fit for eating, but the seeds are still fresh and gooey! I'm looking to trade some whole fruits (lots 'o seeds in there) for:
tulip bulbs
lillies "
gladiolas "
dahlia tubers
"Heavenly Blue" Morning Glory Seeds (I REALLY WANT THESE!!)
carnation seeds (the kind that smell all spicy)
cup and saucer vine seeds
sunflower seeds: "Jade", "Music Box", "Sundance Kid", "Velvet Queen", "Prado Red", "Autumn Beauty"
Clematis cuttings
E-mail me to let me know if you'd like to trade! I need to act fast as these fruit will rot!
Passiflora incarnata: I Don't Need the Seed!
I think i have some sunflower seeds and will look for it and let u know if not, i can go buy some for u ok.
Can you tell me about eating the fruit. When is it ripe, what does it taste like? Deanne
Deanne,
Oh, the fruit is hard to describe, but it's addictive!! I would describe it as sorta apricot flavored with the texture and after taste of wild grapes. I just discovered that this particular passiflora's fruit stays green when it ripens. I was babysitting for a friend and walking around her land when I saw the fruit just hanging there on a bunch of wild vines saying "Oh, come on, you know you wanna try me!!" So, I pulled a green fruit off (it came off quite easily to my surprise) and cracked it open with a "pop". The smell is heavenly; all the flavored lip glosses and jelly beans in the world do not compare to the smell and the taste! You just suck out the pulp or squeeze the juice out (I did this with the child I was watching, now he's hooked and I have an advantage over the lil' tyke!LOL) I thought for months that the fruit wasn't ripe because it was still green, what a lesson to learn now that they're all over-ripe and at the end of the growing season:( You gotta try growing this! It has medicinal values too as a non-habit forming sedative when you brew the leaves. This is an all around good plant; looks good, tastes good, smells good, is useful, and you can use the ground up root as an insecticide!