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I gave some passion fruit seeds to my mother to plant as she has a greener thumb. She looked them up and then told me it's the same thing as the maypop she remembered from her youth in N.C. She had never eaten the fruit, they just stomped on them to hear the pop?? I did a bit more research and discovered that a tea is made from it which is used as a nighttime tea like chamomile tea. I have been unable to discover if the tea is made from the flower or the leaves. Do any of you'll know?
Pua`a
S. FL
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Pua`a
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The leaves. I have used them in a tea...has a relaxing effect like chamomile. You can get the dried ones at the Natural Foods store in Kea'au.
Carrie
Not exactly the same ...
Maypop, passiflora incarnata, or wild passion flower, is hardy to 10 degrees F., and spreads invasively by roots.
Commercial lilikoi is passiflora edulis, which can't handle cold weather.
Passiflora reduces anxiety and is a calmative. I take the extract. Not for people with low blood pressure because it can lower it too much.
Any herb, even the pretty safe ones, it's worth looking up the side effects. "Natural" doesn't mean there are none.
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I don't know which kind I have. It may or may not be the Fl. native type. The fruit tastes like the ones I've had in Ha. but not as sweet and not as pungent an aroma. I will have to try and get some other varieties. The fruit was yellow when ripe and came from interior S. Fl. near the N. side of Lake Okeechobee where it does get some frost.
I may try the tea, but I'm not likely to try the extract. Unfortunately low bloodpressure hasn't been an issue.
Pua`a
S. FL
Big Islander to be.
Pua`a
S. FL
Big Islander to be.
