Giant Yellow Passion Fruit Seeds (Passiflora Flavicarpa)

Giant Yellow Passion Fruit Seeds (Passiflora Flavicarpa)

💰 Price: Package of 5 or 10 seeds

The Giant Yellow Passion Fruit (Passiflora Flavicarpa) 🍋, also called Golden Passion Fruit, is a vigorous tropical perennial vine 🌱, native from southern Brazil through Paraguay to northern Argentina. Today, it is cultivated in tropical and subtropical areas worldwide 🌎. This climbing vine can reach impressive lengths of 20–50 meters, and in some cases even up to 80 meters 🧗‍♂️. It uses clinging tendrils to scramble over fences, trellises, shrubs, or trees 🌿🌳. It can also thrive as a container plant indoors 🏠 if placed in a sunny, south-facing window ☀️.

Foliage & Flowers: The vine grows glossy, dark green leaves 🍀, starting as unilobate and quickly developing into trilobate forms. Leaf sizes vary, with central lobes ranging from 5–18 cm and lateral lobes 4–17 cm. The flowers 🌸 are fragrant, 6–9 cm wide, with a corona composed of white or white-and-purple filaments, attracting pollinators 🐝 and adding striking visual appeal to the garden.

Fruits: The vine produces round to oval, bright yellow fruits 🍋, 6–12 cm long and 4–7 cm wide. The pulp constitutes up to 55% of the fruit in the best selections and is slightly tart, containing many black seeds ⚫. The fruits are popular for beverages 🍹, desserts 🍨, and fresh consumption 🍽️. Compared to Passiflora Edulis, they are less fragrant but slightly more acidic.

Growing & Care:

• Hardiness: Zone 11 (4°C/40°F) ❄️ — protect from frost

• Sun: Full sun ☀️

• Soil: Light, well-draining, loam-based with some peat moss 🌱

• Watering: Daily in hot summer months 💧; weekly in winter ❄️

• Temperature: Optimal 25–30°C 🌡️

• Fertilizer: Every 2 weeks during the growing season 🌿

• Pruning: Essential ✂️ — remove weak growth and occasionally trim vigorous stems to encourage flowering 🌸

• Container size: Limit pot size (12-inch diameter recommended) to promote flowering and fruiting 🏺

Propagation: Sow Passiflora seeds following guidelines for optimal germination 🌱. Full instructions are available here 🔗.

Growth habits: This vine is fast-growing 🌿, can shade other plants if unrestricted, and requires pruning and training for best flowering and fruit production 🌼. It is more heat- and humidity-demanding than Passiflora Edulis 🌞💦, thriving best at low elevations in tropical or subtropical climates. Mulching helps retain soil moisture and protect roots 🌱.

Uses & Benefits: Besides being edible 🍋, the vine produces fragrant flowers 🌸 and can be an ornamental garden feature 🏡. Fruits are excellent for juices, jams, desserts, and cocktails 🍹🍨. The plant also provides shelter and food for pollinators 🐝 and can be grown indoors or outdoors depending on climate 🌎.

With careful care 🌿 — proper sun exposure ☀️, watering 💧, pruning ✂️, and container management 🏺 — the Giant Yellow Passion Fruit vine rewards gardeners with spectacular blooms, fast growth, and delicious yellow fruits 🍋🌸🌱.

🌱 Fresh and germination tested seeds ✅