Sweet Granadilla

The sweet granadilla (Spanish: granadilla) is a plant of the species named Passiflora ligularis because of the plant's ligulate corollae. It is native to the Andes Mountains between Bolivia and Venezuela. It grows as far south as northern Argentina and as far north as Mexico and in the tropical mountains of Africa and Australia. Sweet granadilla likes climates ranging from 15° to 18° C and between 600 and 1000 mm of annual rain. It lives at altitudes ranging from 1700 to 2600 meters above sea level.

They have abundant, simple leaves and greenish-white flowers.

The fruit is orange to yellow colored with small light markings. It has a round shape with a tip ending in the stem. The fruit is between 6.5 and 8 cm long and between 5.1 and 7 cm in diameter. The outer shell is hard and slippery, and has soft padding on the interior to protect the seeds. The seeds, which are hard and black, are surrounded by a gelatinous sphere of transparent pulp. The pulp is the edible part of the fruit and has a strong acidic taste. It is very aromatic and contains vitamins A, C, and K, phosphorus, iron, and calcium. Read more here.

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