Anyone else love Passiflora (passion fruit) like I do? I may be a little obsessed and have too many

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@kybishop

Do you have a favorite maypop variety? Peaceful heritage seems to really boast theirs so I was thinking I’d go for that, but it would be cool to have another variety or two to compare it with.

I’m growing seedlings from @JeremiahT’s local population of incarnata, but they are still small so I can’t comment on the flavor yet. Here’s where he posted about them:

@JeremiahT

My wild local strain produces tasty fruit in fall. I think it’s actually better than the commercial tropical passion fruit I have tried, though the seeds of the maypops are bigger and crunchier. There’s a lot of variation in the genetics and flavor of maypops, though

I’ve had wild maypop fruit a few times in Georgia and Virginia, and they were ok but a lot less juice and flavor than a fresh edulis, so I’m hoping these will be better than the ones I’ve had. The pictures in that thread definitely look better!

Here is a photo from a couple days ago of my new seedlings: