D8564 Passion Fruit ( Passiflora edulis )
A fun indoor plant that will need vine support. A fast growing vine, especially in the tropics, the passion fruit can grow over 20 feet in a single year. This vine has attractive foliage that give a soft evergreen appearance. This plant can be grown indoors as a hanging plant or as a guided climber. Also does a great job at purifying indoor air.
Ripe fruits are edible off the vine or incorporated into a variety of food products such as beverages, jellies, fruit salads and sherbets. This plant has many uses: as a screen, to attract butterflies and hummingbirds, and it looks great cascading down a wall. This vine, native to the Amazon, produces beautiful flowers and sweet-tart fruit. It was named by the Spanish missionaries in South America who saw the Passion (suffering) of Christ represented in its flowers.
Zones 9b and higher it is a perennial.