Wednesday, January 1, 2014

PASSION in 2014

In Feburary 2013, we wanted to include passion fruit in our mini orchard. There are many varieties of passion fruit from all around the world, and in Hawaii, the common name used for them is Lilikoi.  The most common variety produces a small yellow fruit 2" in diameter filled with seeds and juice.  These vines are ubiquitous, grow like crazy and the flavor is intensely tart and sweet. 

We thought it would be fun to have a second variety, so we bought another one someone told us was a purple passion fruit (passiflora edulis).  Well, when it began to flower, and we looked it up, it was NOT the purple passion variety at all.  In November it began to fruit and is now the size of a eggplant!  Supposedly it will take another month to ripen.

Now that we have correctly identified it Phil has the final questions:  Just how many Lilikoi cream cheese cakes will this make?


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