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		BenjiWiebe on Aug 16, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ted's Notes on Pawpaws (2016) This is the first I've heard that passion fruit is native to the US, and I can't find any information on that. Are you sure they are wild passion fruit, and not something else?

pard68 on Aug 17, 2023 [–]

Very certain. The colloquial term is "maypop" and the scientific term is passiflora incarnata. There are numerous species, this is the most northern and its native to the southern US.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passiflora_incarnata

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