I am possibly the only person on the planet who doesn't adore passionfruit.
I try, but I just can't bring myself to enjoy it. I'll eat it if it's adorning a dessert of course, say on a pavlova for example, and while I don't hate it, I am always a little unhappy about it being there. And of course, because I don't love them, or particularly want them, they grow quite well in our garden.
Their flowers however, are a different story.
I don't know if I've ever seen a more spectacular fruit flower, or rather whether I've ever photographed a more spectacular fruit flower, because that's when I really notice the detail. And passionfruit flowers have a whole load of detail, around about as much as a picture in a Dr Suess book.
They look a lot like someone was given a design brief that read, go for it, and then when you think you are finished don't stop, just keep on going for it.
How unfortunate that such a spectacular flower leads to a fruit that I just can't love.
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As a child I hated them...I would never eat anything with those 'flies' on it. Now my mouth waters everytime I check if the precious five on my vine are ready...i.e. turned purple. But, Ali, you just go right ahead and pick you passionfruit early, like you do with everything.
You just thought I was being rude yesterday didn't you...with cockchafer? You ask who would design a flower like a passionfruit bloom and I ask, who would name a beetle.....?
I thought the same thing Hazel, as if anyone would go anywhere near those bugs, let along put one down their pants...seriously...
As for being the only person who dosnt like passionfruit, you are not. I do not like it at all, I love the flavour , but can not cope with the crunchy seeds..ugh, I will not tell you what I call the seeds...but it offends my mother greatly...........to think that she would put 'that' on a pav. It has something to do with rodent droppings.
LOL you gals make me giggle with your comments! :) Putting bugs down ones pants?? Shudder...ugh!!
The flowers are so amazing. But I'm a passionfruit lover! The tang. Mmmmmmm...I also adore artichoke flowers.
Now are you sure they are all supposed to go purple? A friend of mine has one that seems to go yellow, and I can't remember what ours do because mostly I let our neighbour pick them all - they ramble along our shared fence line... no chance of my picking them early, I only do that when I am enthusiastic about things.
And no, I didn't think you were just being rude, because honestly, who would make up a name such as that? Oh wait, someone did.
Suzanne who knows what people will do for fun? I am so glad you don't like passionfruit, I really thought I was the only one. Although I am forgetting that I do like it in punch, my goodness I am going to go and pick that one right now! And enough of the rodents miss, I already have plenty of them here.
i would love it if a passion fruit would grow in my garden allways the way
I'm another person who dislikes Passionfruit. Don't like the flavour, and especially don't like the slimy texture. But the flowers are a different matter, and Ali you have captured them so well in a series of fabulous photos.
When you see them on sale in the shops here they are always deep purple / black, and usually rather wrinkly, but that apparently is the way they should be when they are at their best.
So with you in the dislike of passionfruit - I like the flavour but not the fruit. I love the flower and the bush though. I wish the seeds were not so hard to cope with.
I don't believe I've ever eaten Passion Fruit...the flowers though are almost indescribable in their beauty and uniqueness...thank you for your photos, almost effortless works of art!
Beautiful flowers, beautiful photos. I know what you mean about not liking passion fruit, except for me it is bananas. I want to like them I just don't.
Wow, I never knew passionfruit was such a disliked fruit! Send them all my way people, the kids gobble all ours up before I get a look in. I let them drop off the vine and pick them off the ground - then let them wrinkle up a little, perfect!
We can only grow the yellow ones - I think the purple ones are much nicer.
Don't feel bad if you don't like them. Even though people won't understand why you don't. I personally can't understand why there are people who don't like mangoes! Each to their own.
Just let Hazel know to leave it off the pav.
this relationship of ours has now ended..its over if you can't love me and MY passionfruit then thats it..be done with ya.
ok ok I am being silly I still lubs ya(maybe not look at ya the same again but still lubs ya)I ADORE(angels sing when i say that part)passionfruit and I make the most delish passionfruit lactofermented drink known to mankind(so I'm a show off)i have 2 passionfruit plants at this season i would have somewhere around 200 purple balls of delight...i scoop them out and freeze the pulp till I am ready to make my drink..
I grow the yellow passionfruit and also just pick them up as they drop. If you dont like the seeds they are easy enough to strain out, and to my taste they are perfect with pawpaw. I love your description of the flowers too, and the scent - I often smell them before I see them.
Passionfruit is one of *those* things that *everyone* can grow.... except me. I have four two year old vines of differing varieties, have hand pollinated, not fertilised, potassiumed, BD prepped, ignored, loved, pruned, not pruned and now am going to RIP OUT because they just tease me with all their lush lovely growth and beautiful flowers, but NO FRUIT.
You're not alone. While I love it, I've given up putting it on pavlovas because lots of people don't like it.
I hope the Cook didn't put any passionfruit on the pavlova you won.
Oh no Judith, I didn't win the pavlova, I am just annoying Hazel enough until she cracks and I somehow end up with one... but I can't believe how not alone I am - I thought everyone loved passionfruit. I thought I was a freak, and perhaps I still am, but now I am a freak among freaks!
Joyfulhomemaker, you have made me soooo curious about the drink - are you going to share??
Oh and Donna, I had an eggplant like that. Loved it, lavished it, ignored it, threatened it, and finally, killed it... you can want some thing too much, and it knows and teases you. It's just wrong, but remember, you have the power!
Hi Ali,
Right there with you on passion flowers/fruit. All of the flowers of the various kinds are beautiful, whereas although the fruit tastes ok, it does look rather like something you might find up a dead mans nose!
Now Gary just how often is it that you have that sort of viewing opportunity?
Stunning photos Ali !!
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