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As an example, passion fruit has to be pollinated by hand (with swabs or special gloves) even in most of its natural range (South America) because only certain
by Carioca 6y ago
As an example, passion fruit has to be pollinated by hand (with swabs or special gloves) even in most of its natural range (South America) because only certain species of Uruçu bees can be pollinate it, and they have become rare
- jdmichal 6y agoWikipedia mentions carpenter bees are quite capable. Which probably explains how my neighbor's gets pollinated. I know it's certainly not by hand.
- divinebovine 6y agoI've found wild passion fruit growing on my farm in East Texas. It had plenty of fruit growing on it.
- BenjiWiebe 6y agoPassion fruit isn't native to the US. Are you sure it was indeed passion fruit?
- Cytobit 6y agoThis page from the University of Florida disagrees. https://gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu/plants/ornamentals/passion-flower.html https://gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu/plants/ornamentals/p...
- BenjiWiebe 6y agoI did some more research and I see that there is a Passiflora species (P. incarnata) that grows in Texas, but that isn't what is generally referred to as passion fruit. P. edulis would be what the above commenter is referring to.
- mkl 6y agoThe purple passion fruit commonly grown in New Zealand (not native) doesn't need manual pollination. Not sure what does it, though there are many introduced honey bees and bumblebees alongside some native pollinators like butterflies.
- xerox13ster 6y agoI'm sorry, but could you provide a source on this? I know for a fact I grew up eating wild passion fruit from our property in the Ozarks.