The trouble with growing passion fruit, P incarnata, and other fruits
not native to this area is the strangeness of the flowers. The pollinators
here don't recognize them as sources of nectar and/or pollen. Consequently,
they don't get pollinated unless I do it by hand or the wind does it.
Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Farm
Pequot Lakes, MN 56472
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[NAFEX] Fruits with strange(?) flowers,
Jim Fruth, 08/21/2009