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Garlic Passion Fruit

Passiflora loefgrenii

a.k.a. Maracuja de Aljo

A strange Passion Fruit, with rounded and elongated, green-ripening fruits that have a translucent pulp with a sweet flavor that has strong overtones of garlic.

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Description

A perennial, climbing vine with tri-lobed leaves a bit like some of its more common relatives such as Passiflora mollissima. Pink-lavender colored flowers are borne on the ends of long peduncles.

Hardiness

Unknown.

Growing Environment

Unknown.

Propagation

By seeds.

Uses

Extremely rare, not known much in cultivation. Fruits are edible and are eaten in the plants native range.

Native Range

Native to the Southern Atlantic coastal regions of Brazil.

Related Species

Passifloraceae  
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