Passionfruit Black Beauty
Great over fence, pergola, or providing shade all year, in summer a vibrant flower display and in autumn the tasty fruit.
Description: Vigorous evergreen vine with deep green, shiny leaves and attractive mauve and white flowers. Roundish dark purple fruit with juicy, aromatic flowers.
Use: Fresh with a spoon, fruit salad, on ice cream or over the traditional pavlova.
Food Value: Good Amount of Vitamin A, proteins and carbohydrates.
Planting: for quick establishment plant in spring with plenty of organic matter and plant in sunny spot with excellent drainage.
Care: Passion fruit are heavy feeders during the growing season and require high nitrogen based NPK fertiliser, such as citrus feed. Apply fertiliser regularly during the growing season. Train your vine up a fence or wall removing all laterals until it obtains the height you require then pinch out the top and allow to branch out. Remember fruit is produced in the current seasons growth – so prune in spring to encourage new fruiting growth,
Harvest: when fruit changes from green to dark purple.
Pollination: Self fertile, insect pollinated.
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| The actual tree in my garden |
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| This is the sample of the fruit this tree can produce |
Pear tree – with lovely white flowers and pollination went well… as its turning into fruits.
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| Pears |
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| Pears |
