What is passion fruit?

Question

Can you describe how it looks, smells, tastes and does it have an Arabic name? Where is it grown?

Answer 1

Passiflora edulis or passion fruit is a plant cultivated commercially for its fruit. It is native to South America and widely grown in India, New Zealand, the Caribbean, Brazil, southern Florida, Hawaii, Australia, East Africa, Israel and South Africa. The passion fruit is round to oval, yellow or dark purple at maturity, with a soft to firm, juicy interior filled with numerous seeds. The fruit can be grown to eat or for its juice, which is often added to other fruit juices to enhance aroma.

The two types of passion fruit have greatly different exterior appearances. The bright yellow variety of passion fruit, which is also known as the Golden Passionfruit, can grow up to the size of a grapefruit, has a smooth, glossy, light and airy rind, and has been used as a rootstock for the purple passion fruit in Australia.[1] The dark purple passion fruit (for example, in Kenya) is smaller than a lemon, with a dry, wrinkled rind at maturity.

p.s. it is also my preferable lip balm flavour :D

Answer 2

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never tasted it

Answer 3

it doesnt have an Arabic name.

it looks like Quiwi .

it has pink soft flesh like papaya.

this flesh has very small black seeds that you eat with the flesh.

it has no unique smell or taste .

it is grown in tropical lands .

i saw it in Hawaii .

you just eat it bec of its name !

sometimes it is sold as a natural  drink .

i get it bec of its name !

Answer 4

In arabic botanical name it's called bassiony, im not kidding :D paSsIon=bassiony, ta7refat el masreyeen:D, maybe it has another name i don't know, but i was studying botany and that was its arabic name

Answer 5

It is very sweet and considered an exotic fruit it works very well with mango it is small with a rubbery skin that you don't eat and inside is a yellow slime with lots of seeds you can eat the seeds but most of the time is sieved and the yellow slime it used normally to falvour something than to eat by it's self.

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