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Passionfruit


Passionfruit
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Copyright: Georg Isbary (oki) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 76 W: 10 N: 107] (540)
Genre: Plants
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2003
Categories: Flowers
Camera: Nikon F90x, Sigma 70-200mm F2.8 EX, Agfa Vista 200
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2007-02-14 15:28
Viewed: 865
Points: 4
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Where does my Maracuya in all juices come from?

Passiflora edulis or passion fruit is cultivated commercially for its fruit in northwestern South America, India, the Caribbean, Brazil (called maracujá), south Florida, Hawaii (where it is called lilikoʻi or lilikoi), Australia (where it is always spelt passionfruit), East Africa, and South Africa (where it is called granadilla). The passion fruit is round to oval, yellow or dark purple at maturity, with a mushy interior filled with numerous seeds. The fruit can be grown to eat or for its juice, which is often added to other fruit juices to enhance aroma.

The two types of passion fruit have greatly different exterior appearances. The bright yellow passion fruit (called "guavadilla" in South Africa)[1] can grow up to the size of a grapefruit, has a smooth, glossy, light and airy rind, and has been used as a rootstock for the purple granadilla in Australia. [2] The dark purple passion fruit (for example, in Kenya) is smaller than a lemon, with a dry, wrinkled rind at maturity.

The purple varieties of the fruit reportedly have traces of cyanogenic glycosides in the skin, and hence are mildly poisonous. However, the thick, hard skin is hardly edible, and if boiled (to make jam), the cyanide molecules are destroyed at high temperatures.

(Wikipedia.org)

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Yes, interesting. I want few seeds of Passiflora edulis. Interestinf groups this group of flowers of passion. Best regards. Cezar.

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  • mamcg Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Note Writer [C: 96 W: 4 N: 29] (2000)
  • [2007-02-16 21:20]

Good note about hence the situation is critical to keep focus both the flower and the bud as here I can see the first in focus, well done.

Ali.

This photo is interesting as there are two flowers in the shot
TFS, nick

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