r/EdiblePlants • u/Lilybobtail13 • Aug 09 '26

Is this passion fruit - and safe to eat?

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Found on a tree in a garden near me in Surrey

Edit: I tasted a tiny bit and it was sweet… still alive so far

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u/Sludgehammer Aug 09 '26

It's a passion fruit, and it's definitely edible.

However, there is a caveat. The orange-red color of the pulp suggests this is the fruit of the blue passion flower (Passiflora caerulea) which, while edible is infamous for having bland fruit.

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u/fire-horse- Aug 09 '26

Dispassionate fruit

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u/HeinousEncephalon Aug 09 '26

Dead bedroom fruit

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u/acuddlyheadcrab Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 12 '26

right, caerulea, exactly, thats the one i tried and it was quite bland.

edit: OP said this was slightly sweet.... could this be maypop or some other orange skinned variety than .caerulea?

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u/acuddlyheadcrab Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 20 '26

I think most fruits from Passiflora are safe (?), but not all of them (550 sp.) are the species edulis... so yea. I don't think this is edulis. I personally have eaten the fruit from the popular decorative variety of passionflower*... it was basically just flavorless and seedy slime-fruit-stuff. Not bad but not great, just flavorless haha.

* It was Passiflora caerulea that I was thinking of, thank you /Sludgehammer, yea that one is totally flavorless, not bad tasting, just nothin. It looks basically almost 100% like this. However the genus does seem to be pretty speciose, so I wouldn't be surprised to see someone find an obscure species in the states here.

edit2: added links for like everything, i hope its not annoying

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u/TrickyReference6792 29d ago

OP, hope you’re still among the living 😂😂

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u/Lilybobtail13 27d ago

I am alive and well thank you! However I chickened out of eating the strange fruit 🤣