Friday, October 06, 2006

Snack Thursday 5 October - Granadilla

In the spirit of my quest to try something new at least once a month, I tried a granadilla.



Sort of like a giant non-wrinkly passion fruit. It was very sweet and full of crunchy, edible seeds, like a passion fruit.

According to the Wikipedia:

"The sweet granadilla (Spanish: granadilla) is a plant of the species named Passiflora ligularis because of the plant's ligulate corollae. It is native to the Andes Mountains between Bolivia and Venezuela. It grows as far south as northern Argentina and as far north as Mexico and in the tropical mountains of Africa and Australia. Sweet granadilla likes climates ranging from 15° to 18° C and between 600 and 1000 mm of annual rain. It lives at altitudes ranging from 1700 to 2600 meters above sea level."