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Garlic Passion Fruit
Passiflora loefgrenii
a.k.a. Maracuja de Aljo

A strange Passion Fruit, with rounded and elongated, green-ripening fruits that have a translucent pulp with a sweet flavor that has strong overtones of garlic.

Description: A perennial, climbing vine with tri-lobed leaves a bit like some of its more common relatives such as Passiflora mollissima. Pink-lavender colored flowers are borne on the ends of long peduncles.

Hardiness: Unknown.

Growing Environment: Unstudied.

Propagation: By seeds.

Uses: Extremely rare, not known much in cultivation. Fruits are edible and are eaten in the plants native range.

Native Range: Native to the Southern Atlantic coastal regions of Brazil.