One of my favorite flowers is the purple passionflower - they just look cool! Pollinators love them and the fruit can be eaten or made into jelly. This video is about how they grow, where they grow, what critters use them and how they do in the garden.

Hope you enjoy it! Let me know what you think.

Anthony

Very enjoyable, Anthony.

When I lived in north Idaho , quite a few folks would have them on trellises around their porch or decks. Very pretty flower and vine. The leaves remind me of what locals call Creeping Virginia, a vine that turns brilliant red in fall.

Thanks for another good one.

Maypop is what I know them as. Love snacking on them, kind of a lemony taste to them.

In third grade I raised off some gulf frillatary caterpillars in a jar picking fresh leaves daily for them. They spun cocoons and I released them after emergence.

Tuckessee is full of them. I loved eating them out of the wild. Scared the crap out of the citiots in my unit.

Great info Anthony! thanks

Can you put the maypop in a blender and make a smoothie?

I have a good sized spread of them growing on my strip pit. They’re blooming now. Do you know if deer eat them? Something got them last year.

Thank you for an edible plant video, Anthony T!

They are kind of like a pomegranate. Fleshy pulp around a hard seed. Not as juicy though. I wouldn't think a blender would be a good idea without some serious hand work separating flesh from seed.

Yes, they do eat them.

Thank you, warrior!

Does the fruit taste good, where it would be worth growing to eat?

Keith

Kind of an acquired taste and not much meat to it.

Thin green rind much like an orange peel. Hollow interior full of BB sized oblong seeds. Each seed wrapped in a pulpy flesh.

I would describe it as sweet tart kinda of lemony flavor. More dry than juicy.

Overall not much to them but we liked them as kids. These are the wild native ones others may be different.

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They can be used to make jelly and seems to be the way most people eat them.

Deer will eat the fruit, and browse on the vines too.

The passionfruit that ends up in juices and various other foods are of the tropical variety and are a little meatier and juicier than our native passionfruit.

Thank you for the follow-up reply, Anthony T.