Passionflower (Passiflora)
Current breeding projects in Buchs - impressions of a photographer
How can you, I thought. But Markus " Merciless" Kobelt didn't let up: Yes, exactly, to invest 1-2 days with a photo shoot in the hottest August of all times (?) on the current breeding fields in Buchs, that was his latest job to me. Now I do like to take photos. But I prefer slightly overcast skies - of course just so that the photos turn out as good as possible, certainly not because of me... But what did I notice during the photo safari, armed with the camera and with the eyes of...
Read moreHardy Cooltropics® passion fruit: a new fruit variety and climber for the garden
Newly available from Lubera Edibles are two hardy passion fruits: Cooltropics® Eia Popeia® and Cooltropic® Snowstar®. In the next few years, the Cooltropics® series will be expanded with many new varieties from the Lubera breeding programme. This is reason enough to ask Lubera breeder, Raphael Maier, for a presentation and classification of the new fruit variety for the northern garden. How exactly do hardy passion fruits work, how can they be produced and propagated and when is the ideal time...
Read moreBreeding hardy passion fruit
Have you ever heard of hardy passion fruit? Probably not. When you think of passion fruit, you tend to think of truly tropical fruits from South America. And that is true. The passion fruits of the species Passiflora edulis available in supermarkets are tropical plants, just like the majority of the more than 600 species of the genus Passiflora.
The plants of the genus Passiflora are also called passion flowers and over 100 species of them produce edible fruits. These fruits are very different...
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