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BRIEF DESCRIPTION A vigorous, woody, climbing vine, with entire leaves and greenish-white flowers. Fruit an ovoid berry, 7-8 cm in diameter, orange-brown and hard-shelled. USES The sweet fruits has a juicy, acid pulp it can be eaten fresh or made into ice-cream, but it is mainly used in beverages. GROWING PERIOD Perennial, producing 1 fruit crop per year. COMMON NAMES Sweet granadilla, Granadilla, Grenadilla douce. FURTHER INF Sweet granadilla is a native of tropical America. It is grown at high elevations in the tropics, between 2100 and 2700 m in Ecuador, and between 800 and 3000 m in Bolivia and Colombia, and at lower elevations in the subtropics. It thrives in humid conditions. | Sources |
SOURCES (P. ligularis Juss.) Popenoe W 1974 pp 245 Roecklein J 1987 pp 23 [USE] Duke J 1979 pp 104 Duke J 1975 pp 23 [PH, RAIN, TEMP] Sims D (pers. comm.) Vietmeyer N 1989 pp 289-290 [KTMP, USE] Purseglove J 1974 pp 421 [USE] Verheij E 1991 pp 351 [USE] |