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Old 04-12-2007, 08:00 PM posted to uk.food+drink.misc,uk.rec.gardening
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Default Trying to ID a mysterious fruit

"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
Stewart Robert Hinsley writes:

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| One fruit I particularly like but don't see much in the UK shops is
| grenadilla (is there an English name?). Divine! Lidl (of all places!)
| was selling them a while back...
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| Yes, there is an English name; it is granadilla.
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| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granadilla

We always knew it as grenadilla in Africa.


Interesting. In Australia, the purple ones are known as passionfruit and
the yellow ones as banana passionfruit.