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Variety of Passion fruit · Passiflora edulis
Vigorous grafted purple passion fruit with deep-violet skin and intense aroma.
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2🇦🇺 Australia 2000
Taste & characteristics
Taste
sourjuicysweetaromatic
Profile
- Parentage
- Passiflora edulis f. edulis (Purpurtyp)
- Fruit weight
- 45 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Roundish, dark-violet to near-black fruit with a thicker rind and aromatic, sweet-tart pulp.
Growth
Vigorous vine, usually grafted onto hardy rootstock, for subtropics and sheltered sites.
Yield
Reliable yields, with two main cropping peaks per year in subtropics.
Notes
Widely grown purple commercial cultivar in Australia and New Zealand.
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