Thursday, March 20, 2014

Passiflora Foetida

It started with a couple of foliage that once I had mistaken as pumpkin or cucumber plant. I didn't plant it, it just grew by itself, so I guess the seed may have come in the soil I bought. I let it be. It grew prolifically, and at some point, starting to climb up. I gave it a cane to climb up. And one day.... 
it started to bloom...


When this plant started to bloom, I felt familiar... 
I thought to myself, "Where have I seen it before?"
I didn't really pay attention to it because I thought it was just wild flowers, so I let it be.
But one day, I noticed that the flowers only bloomed wide open for several hours during sunlight, but in the afternoon 
it will be cloistered.

And several days afterwards I can see a small fruit formed inside this hairy garment, covering it as some kind of a protection.



Out of curiosity, one day I broke open one of the fruit and found these.... immature green pulps! It's a kind of passion fruit! But a teeny weeny one.. :-)

Once the fruit mature, the skin will turn yellow and the pulp softened and taste sweet and a little sour just like passion fruits.Only, it's the miniature.



When I showed it to my mother, she recognized it as wild passion fruit she used to find as a child in the forest. 
Hmm.... it's very interesting, that sometimes you can reap 
what you didn't sow!




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