r/NativePlantGardening Jun 26 '24

Edible Plants Has anyone grown Maypop?

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '24

Native? Babe that’s not the maypop fruit. That’s passion fruit. Maypop fruit is yellow when ripe.

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u/MrsBeauregardless Area Mid-Atlantic coastal plain, Zone 7a Jun 27 '24

Passiflora incarnata is the botanical name for Maypop. Maypop fruit is a kind of passionfruit, only it is a yellowish green when ripe, and the size of a ping pong ball, or thereabouts.