Passiflora edulis ‘Sweet Sunrise’ – Passionfruit – Passifloraceae (The Passion Flower Family)

Description Passiflora edulis is one of the tastiest passionfruit or granadilla commonly grown in the tropics for fruit production. ‘Sweet Sunrise’ gets its name from the sweet, tangy and bright golden yellow fruit with filled with tasty and tangy orange-yellow pulp and crunchy seeds. Self-fertile but may produce more fruit in the presence of a different cultivar. On top of the delicious fruit, the white and purple flowers are intricately beautiful and fragrant. A larval host plant for many butterflies which quickly grows to stay ahead of these munchers. Plants may be hardy in coastal BC in protected microclimates such as up against the sunny wall of a house where the stem is planted/buried six inches deeper than the soil surface. Plants are said to withstand -4 degrees Celsius. Or safer: grow in containers that can be protected in winter in a sun room or as a houseplant. Attracts hummingbirds and butterflies.