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Can you identify this fruit/bush for me please?
I have this fuity bushy thing in my garden that was there when I
bought the house and I have no idea what it is. Here are some pics: http://img193.imagevenue.com/img.php...7_122_88lo.JPG http://img20.imagevenue.com/img.php?..._122_909lo.JPG http://img106.imagevenue.com/img.php...122_1114lo.JPG http://img106.imagevenue.com/img.php..._122_958lo.JPG http://img13.imagevenue.com/img.php?..._122_793lo.JPG The fruits look really appetising now that they seem to be ripening to an orange colour. They go through a lemon yellow stage before they become orange and I don't know (yet) if they will change to another colour. Any ideas? |
Can you identify this fruit/bush for me please?
wrote in message ... I have this fuity bushy thing in my garden that was there when I bought the house and I have no idea what it is. Here are some pics: http://img193.imagevenue.com/img.php...7_122_88lo.JPG http://img20.imagevenue.com/img.php?..._122_909lo.JPG http://img106.imagevenue.com/img.php...122_1114lo.JPG http://img106.imagevenue.com/img.php..._122_958lo.JPG http://img13.imagevenue.com/img.php?..._122_793lo.JPG The fruits look really appetising now that they seem to be ripening to an orange colour. They go through a lemon yellow stage before they become orange and I don't know (yet) if they will change to another colour. Any ideas? Passion Flower Mike |
Can you identify this fruit/bush for me please?
In article , "'Mike'" writes: | wrote in message | ... | | I have this fuity bushy thing in my garden that was there when I | bought the house and I have no idea what it is. | | Passion Flower Specifically, Passiflora caerulea. The fruits are edible when ripe, just like the ones you can buy in the shops, but are best described as insipid. They have a slight passion fruit flavour, but not much. Still, they aren't unpleasant. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
Can you identify this fruit/bush for me please?
WOW!!
Talk about a rapid response! Thanks very much. So I can eat them then, that's good to know. What colour should they be when fully ripe? |
Can you identify this fruit/bush for me please?
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Can you identify this fruit/bush for me please?
Nick Maclaren wrote:
In article , "'Mike'" writes: wrote in message ... I have this fuity bushy thing in my garden that was there when I bought the house and I have no idea what it is. Passion Flower Specifically, Passiflora caerulea. The fruits are edible when ripe, just like the ones you can buy in the shops, but are best described as insipid. They have a slight passion fruit flavour, but not much. Still, they aren't unpleasant. Regards, Nick Maclaren. Surely you are only referring to the red pulp (and seeds). As far as I remember, the skin is not very pleasant. -- Jeff (cut "thetape" to reply) |
Can you identify this fruit/bush for me please?
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Can you identify this fruit/bush for me please?
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(Nick Maclaren) wrote: In article , writes: | WOW!! | | Talk about a rapid response! | | Thanks very much. So I can eat them then, that's good to know. What | colour should they be when fully ripe? Yellow to orange. They will also start to feel a bit softer. Incidentally, the plant will get cut back by any frosts, and can be cut back as hard as you like in winter or spring to keep it under control. Regards, Nick Maclaren. Seconded. Passion vines love to take over if you let them. -- Peace! Om "If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed." --Mark Twain |
Can you identify this fruit/bush for me please?
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, wrote: WOW!! Talk about a rapid response! Thanks very much. So I can eat them then, that's good to know. What colour should they be when fully ripe? They're yellow when ripe, but the strains sold for gardes are almost always hollow with just a tiny dollop of bright red pulp and loads of black seeds. I pop them open and suck the seeds then spit out the seeds while in the garden. It would take hundreds to have enough of the red pulp to strain and can. There are species with plenty of pulp inside, but not the purple passion flower. I like the flavor, but everyone else I've convinced to try the red pulp didn't think much of it. However, the yellow rind is a fair substitute for any "green tomatoes" recipe, or mixed with green tomatoes or squashes or bell peppers, or mixed into relish. The simplest thins is to slice up the rinds smallish, fry with onion and green pepper in oil or butter, & added to scrambled eggs. Or fry until partially browned in very hot oil with onion, bell pepper, and wdhatever else you like, to make a relish that'll keep for weeks in the frigerator and goes nicely with hotdogs (tofu hotdogs in my case) or other sorts of sandwiches, even on grilled cheese. -paghat the ratgirl -- visit my temperate gardening website: http://www.paghat.com visit my film reviews website: http://www.weirdwildrealm.com |
Can you identify this fruit/bush for me please?
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wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:44:15 -0700, (paghat) wrote: In article , wrote: WOW!! Talk about a rapid response! Thanks very much. So I can eat them then, that's good to know. What colour should they be when fully ripe? They're yellow when ripe, but the strains sold for gardes are almost always hollow with just a tiny dollop of bright red pulp and loads of black seeds. I pop them open and suck the seeds then spit out the seeds while in the garden. It would take hundreds to have enough of the red pulp to strain and can. There are species with plenty of pulp inside, but not the purple passion flower. I like the flavor, but everyone else I've convinced to try the red pulp didn't think much of it. However, the yellow rind is a fair substitute for any "green tomatoes" recipe, or mixed with green tomatoes or squashes or bell peppers, or mixed into relish. The simplest thins is to slice up the rinds smallish, fry with onion and green pepper in oil or butter, & added to scrambled eggs. Or fry until partially browned in very hot oil with onion, bell pepper, and wdhatever else you like, to make a relish that'll keep for weeks in the frigerator and goes nicely with hotdogs (tofu hotdogs in my case) or other sorts of sandwiches, even on grilled cheese. -paghat the ratgirl Pags, is Riverside Washington anywhere near you or does it have similar climate? Riverside is in Okanagan county, clear across a mountain range from me, into rather dry areas with thin pine forests opening onto arid prairies (in a rain-shadow caused by the Cascades). Really couldn't be any different from my damp and deeply green waterbound county of Kitsap. More like living on the Russian steppes. Good place to grow temperate ground orchids, which do poorly my side of the mountain but love the prairie weather patterns. If property has any native Rhododendron albiflorum they should preserved in-place, as they almost always die if transplanted. If I lived there I'd have to completely relearn gardening, though I wouldn't mind the chance of having a collection of ground orchids. Might seem an odd place for a Mahayanan lama to have a home but almost half the county is Asian people, which doesn't mean a lot of people, the whole county must have only about 3,000 folks in it. And just over the boarder in Canada is a Buddhist retreat. -paggers I want to use your website to make recommendations for Lama Zopa Rinpoche's home in WA. Lot's of deer. He wants tons of color. I looked it up on a zone map and it maps it at around zone 5. I doubt you are that cold, so is this way north or inland or what? Will the plants lists on your site apply also to Riverside? Any help appreciated. Deer, color, perennial, sounds cold! V Victoria "There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know." Donald Rumsfeld http://gotbodhicitta-wangmo.blogspot.com/ -- visit my temperate gardening website: http://www.paghat.com visit my film reviews website: http://www.weirdwildrealm.com |
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