Passion fruit

Passiflora edulis

Passifloraceae

A wrinkled purple shell full of seedy pulp — perfume in a spoon, and a different species from the maypop leaf tea.

Ripe pulp is food. This is P. edulis, the purple or yellow granadilla — not the medicinal maypop leaf on the passionflower plate.

Parts used: Ripe pulp and seed
Traditional notes: Kitchen fruit · Juice and curd · Traditional South American dessert
Grow · USDA 6b: Tender perennial vine, USDA 9–11; an annual or greenhouse north Seed or a start. A strong trellis. Some types need a pollinator partner. In work: Jul · Aug · Sep · Oct
Harvest: When fruit drops or the shell wrinkles and colors fully.

The flower is worth the vine even if fruit is shy.
Yellow and purple types are both food.

Safety

Using this plate as a sleep-leaf protocol — that is P. incarnata, with its own cautions

Lore

Spanish priests saw the Passion in the corona of the flower — hence the name, not a romance. Granadilla is the little pomegranate of the same fruit. The grocery pulp cup is often yellow and frozen. The maypop of the American Southeast is a cousin you do not juice the same way.

The Herbarium — a teaching catalog, not a clinic. Traditional use is history, not a prescription. USDA 6b dates are a week either way, not a promise. Do not eat, drink, or harvest a plant you cannot name.