♥️ It is tropical, evergreen vine from South America known for its stunning scarlet-red flowers and edible passion fruit. Yes, the fruit are edible, but they are very rarely seen.
♥️ It thrives in full sun or part shade with fertile, well-drained soils and can grow up to 10-12 feet long.
♥️ This easy-to-grow plant is perfect for trellises, walls, and containers. Minimal pruning is needed, and it blooms primarily in summer and fall.
♥️ Attracting butterflies and hummingbirds 🐝
💻 Do you grow Passion vines? Share yours in comments👇
🍾 How to make exotic Passion Fruit Champagne Slush
Halve passion fruits crosswise and scoop out pulp with seeds into a bowl. Sprinkle sugar over the pulp. Let sit at room temperature for an hour. Stir in lime juice and boiling-hot water. Stir until sugar is dissolved. Pour through a fine sieve, pressing on solids, then discard the seeds. Freeze in ice cube tray. Once frozen, add 1 cube per champagne flute, then slowly add the champagne.
Makes 6 cocktails:
✔️ 10 passion fruits ✔️ 1/2 cup sugar ✔️ 1 tbsp lime juice ✔️ 1/4 cup boiling hot water ✔️ 1 chilled bottle of Champagne or sparkling wine
🍷 We discovered that Barbados Cherry (Malpighia glabra) we introduced earlier makes an excellent fresh-squeezed juice!
🍷 Barbados Cherry is a vigorous grower that starts producing right away, and by the second year you have so much fruit that you don't know what to do with it - you can eat only so much fruit out of hand!
🍷 Here is our Top Tropicals Signature Recipe -
🍒Barbados Cherry Juice:
1. Collect berries and rinse them with cold water
2. In a bowl, press the fruit with a potato musher, spoon or cup, and drain the fresh juice into a cup - put the juice aside.
3. Add a few spoons of sugar to the mush (optional), push-mush some more to extract more juice.
4. Add to the remaining mushed pulp some hot boiled water, stir, and let sit for a couple of hours.
5. Drain the liquid through a colander (you may add a little extra water in the process of extracting more tasty pulp out) and add to the fresh juice you made earlier. 6. Refrigerate for an hour, then serve in a clear glass to enjoy the color.
🎀 The Barbados Cherry juice made this way tastes very similar to Guava juice. It is very aromatic and tasty, and has a beautiful Baby-pink color!
❤️ Enjoy and stay healthy!
🍊 Remember Barbados Cherry fruit contains 65 times more of vitamin C than an orange!
