Babadine

[Zaka]

Irie,
So I've just come across this plant.....Fruits are huge..
Anyone know anything about it?
Found this in me searches...and note the last sentence //http://www.barbadine.com/pages/passiflora_quadrangularis_lien.htm
I assume that it's flowers maybe the same usage as passionfruit.
Respect
Z

[VajraPirate]

I love passiflora sp. The flowers are just sooo alien and trippy looking.

[Stonehenge]

Yeah, the roots have poisonous and narcotic effects. I would not risk the poison to get the narcotic part. The fruits sound interesting. I try to stick with stuff that has a long history of use behind it. There are a surprising number of things in that category that we don't know about.

Just for example, the bark of a tree known as mulunu. It's been known a long time and has sedative and narcotic effects. It's also used as a medicine and helps with liver problems and other things. I plan to try it.

[Zaka]

Irie Stoney,
Not sure if I would try the roots....but the flowers are definitely worth investigating.IMHO
The fruits grow as big a melon....very odd!
Glad you brought up the mulunu, my father-in-law good liver troubles....and we got a lot of trees around....thanks! :bravo
Respect
Z

[VajraPirate]

Do you mean Mulungu, Stoney?

Think you missed a "g" in there. :wink:

[sid vivius]

it's one from the erythrina species... I never found it myself !
http://www.rain-tree.com/mulungu.htm

[Zaka]

Irie,
The flower. Very like lotus in touch. Strongly fragrant.
[attachment=2:18gd5kqf]DSCI0346.JPG[/attachment:18gd5kqf]
[attachment=1:18gd5kqf]DSCI0348.JPG[/attachment:18gd5kqf]
[attachment=0:18gd5kqf]DSCI0349.JPG[/attachment:18gd5kqf]
Respect
Z

[Ryparosa]

Hola Zaka

We call these "grandilla" here. My wife has cooked with the fruits before. Not very interesting if you ask me, But hey when you havn't eaten for a few days im sure they would be pretty good. Did you try eating the fruits at all?

But the flowers are very cool. I grow them for the flowers.

[Zaka]

Hola Zaka

We call these "grandilla" here. My wife has cooked with the fruits before. Not very interesting if you ask me, But hey when you havn't eaten for a few days im sure they would be pretty good. Did you try eating the fruits at all?

But the flowers are very cool. I grow them for the flowers.

Irie Cas,
Most of the time rats eat the fruit out.
My intention was to grow for the flowers.....
Still waiting on that cutting to flower!
Respect
Z

[Ryparosa]

They can take a while to flower i noticed. Longer than most passiflora spp

Rats you say?

I to share the pain, We have some monsters here in papua. Practically the size of small dogs! All my vege gardens have wire around them because of this. Pains in the ass i say!