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J blue

Harvested the Passiflora lutea today. This is for the food security + rewilding project.

There are around two seeds in every berry and I collected enough already for everyone who wanted them. They don’t taste very good: sweetish pen ink with hints of dish soap. They stain a blueish purple. The flowers are edible though and can be used as a garnish.

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A small green passionflower. The whole flower gives the impression of an exploding star. The 5 sepals are larger and are long thin and pale green. The 5 petals are thinner, shorter and white. The long thin white filaments are as long as the sepals and are fewer in number than other Passiflora. A (probably) inexact count is 33. The ovary and stylus are also smaller and green. The operculum (ring around the center) is white. It is sticking up from a stem on a thin vine. Opposite is another bud. Behind the flower is a sea-green watermarked leaf.
A very poor image taken from my phone of the ripe berries I picked today. It was very bright outside and I couldn’t see what I was taking a photo of. There is a very thick long glare from the top left corner of the pic to the bottom right. Behind the glare are vines of the passion flower hanging down with loads of black berries hanging off individually from stems. The leaves look like cartoon dinosaur footprints. There is a tree trunk center left.
Passionfruit berries in a white bowl. They look a bit like blueberries but more ovaline and mostly black. Some of the berries are slightly shriveled. The skin is very delicate and a few are a little torn.
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Nick Doty

@jblue how/when do you plant the seeds? we see this vine in the wild sometimes, and would love to grow it along fences around our building.

J blue

@npdoty right now, I’m storing them with moist spaghnum in a plastic bag in the fridge. They will be shipped this way in November. It’s better to plant these outside overwinter, protected from squirrels. (I cage my planters or keep them in the garage). They will germinate in the spring.

I’m shipping them where they are native. If you can’t find berries locally, I can send them to you.

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