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Passiflora edulis 'Nancy Garrison'

I've grown this plant in three areas - at my home (92116 in San Diego, CA), at my community garden space in San Francisco (94103) and at the nursery I used to work in in Vista, CA (92084).

At my home, it does well even though it is in too small of a pot and not in the ground. It fruits and flowers freely. The leaves are not particularly large and are palmate. At Exotica (92084) we grew these both in the ground and in containers. They *thrived* in both and were robust, vigourous vines that would go into the tall canopies of the silk floss tree and other really really really tall spaces. We had to keep on top of it to stop it from overgrowing the entire place. It flowered and fruited in the pots but better fruiting was definitely from the ones in the ground. The leaves were large and lush at this location - even the potted ones. I also grew one in my community garden space in San Francisco (94103) and it did pretty well. Not quite as robust as in San Diego. The weather in my zip was rather warm by San Francisco standards.

As with all Passifloras, you will want to avoid planting this near canyons and other wild areas as they will escape and drive out native species.

Flower is pretty nice and has a good smell. It will waft a LITTLE if you have a lot of blooms on it. Fruit is good and tastes slightly like oranges and mixes well with orange juice. It is acidic. Orangish pulp with crunchy seeds. Purple rinds when ripe and can start to wrinkle as it becomes more ripe. As it becomes too ripe, it gets very acidic and less pulpy but I still like it a lot.

Passifloras have a tendency to yellow in the leaves after they set fruit or in mid fruiting season. This is an iron deficiency so you will need to supply iron of some kind (hopefully organic...hint hint...)

Hope this helps someone.

Foliage color was listed here as blue-green. My Nancy Garrison has foliage that is yellow-green. I also have the cultivar "Frederick", and this one has dark green (almost bluish) leaves.