Passion fruit/maypop

RMinVa · Jul 29, 2014

Since I was a kid I like to eat a few each year. Anyone here make Maypop jelly? Dry years can't find them.

Have a huge crop this year. Some of the largest ones I've ever seen. Wife and I just got back in from looking at them. May try some jelly.

amo · Jul 29, 2014

what IS a maypop? Thanks Amo

RMinVa · Jul 29, 2014

It's a type of fruit . I wondered about the name itself and got this from another site.

(“Maypops” is a two-season name. Here in Florida and other parts of the south they can blossom in May. But the fruits don’t get big enough to step on and “pop” until June or July. The name comes from “maracock” which is what the Powhatan Indians called it. And though thought of a “southern” wild fruit, Maypops grow as far north as Pennsylvania and west to Kansas, south to Texas, central Florida and Bermuda. Under cultivation P. incarnata likes full sun to partial shade, light, evenly moist soil. Deciduous, it can take temperatures down to 5F. In the wild they grow in sunny areas with good drainage, at the top of a berm, not the bottom. Many caterpillars like the Maypop including the Gulf Fritillary and Zebra Wing Butterfly.

The link has a picture of the bloom. The fruit is about the size of and egg and same shape. Dark green when growing and turns almost yellow in my area. It grows wild here.
maypop passionflower

glennster · Jul 29, 2014

I had maypop for a while, never got a decent fruit. Pods were always just full of seeds.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 29, 2014

When I was a kid, our place was covered with maypops. once or twice during the summer, an elderly black couple would come in an old 1940 or so Dodge car, cut out in the back to make a truck. They would pull maypop vines up and load them in that old car. They took them to Asheville NC, and sold them to a firm that made heart medicine from them..

John M · Jul 29, 2014

You can eat those things? They were a weed here!

1948CaseVAI · Jul 29, 2014

I always thought a tire worn down so the cords showed was a maypop.

Passion fruit/maypop

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