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a wrinkled little grenade that tastes like sunshine arguing with battery acid
means A small, round tropical fruit with a tough purple or yellow rind and tart, intensely aromatic pulp full of edible seeds, from the passionflower vine.
from The name comes from the passionflower (genus Passiflora), christened by Spanish missionaries in 17th-century South America who saw the flower's elaborate parts as symbols of the Passion of Christ — the crown of thorns in its filaments, the nails and wounds in its stigmas and stamens. So 'passion' here is the religious sense (suffering, from Latin pati, 'to suffer'), not romance; the fruit simply took its name from the holy-looking bloom.
- name origin
- named by missionaries who saw Christ's crucifixion in its flower
- crunchy seeds
- those tiny seeds are edible and totally intentional
- climbing vine
- grows on vines that strangle whatever they touch
- ugly is ripe
- the more wrinkled the skin, the sweeter inside
- sedative cousin
- passionflower leaves are used as a natural sleep aid
passion fruit granadilla — sweet yellow variety grown commercially in ecuador, colombia, and peru since the 1960s
passion fruit lilikoi — hawaiian species (passiflora edulis) cultivated on maui and big island producing tart juice