Side by side
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Lay two plants next to each other — uses, risks, and whether either has a grow guide.
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Passion fruit
Passiflora edulis
A wrinkled purple shell full of seedy pulp — perfume in a spoon, and a different species from the maypop leaf tea.
Flavor
Tropical perfume, acid, seedy crunch. A ripe one smells through the shell.
In favor
A vine that fruits in a warm season
Against
Confusion with maypop leaf medicine
Days to harvest
A warm-season vine may fruit the first or second year
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