Banana Passion Fruit

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The Banana Passion Fruit's fruit looks like an elongated  -stretched passionfruit.  

• The flower is large in size, pink and green - grey petaled with a yellow and white center.
• has a tube of 7.5 to 10 cm long.
• The leaves are deeply 3 - lobed.
• 6 to 12 cm wide
• 7.5 to 10 cm long
• The stipules are short, slender and curved.
• When ripe the fruit is yellow-orange in color.
• Sweet and edible pulp.
• 2 to 4.75 cm long and 3 to 4 cm wide.
• In the South Eastern part of Australia [ like New Zealand] the fruit ripens from late March or early April to September or October.
• Rind is thick.
• Ph - Subacid to acid pulp.
• Each fruit weighs about 50 to 150 g.
• 1 vine equals about 100 to 200 at starting point. 
• Seeds
• small
• black
• flat
• elliptic
• reticulate
• The plant itself tends to be invasive.
• A vigorious climber of 6 to 7 m. [20 or 23 ft].
• Propagation
• Usually grown from seeds
• Shorten the time to five weeks by soaking in luke warm water.
• Fruit available after two years.

Passiflora sp., banana passionfruit (Plant, Passifloraceae), New Zealand: Naturalised

yellow mature fruit and green immature fruit