I fondly remembered those fun times we had as kids. We like to roam around “wildly” catching spiders, picking wild edible fruits (ok, admittedly, we would sometimes “steal” fruits from neighbors but eventually got chased by dogs & rattan sticks hahahaha …)

One of these fruits comes with beautiful flowers like this, they grown abundantly in the wild. We used to called these “bird rice” since (I think) the birds like to eat them. Anyway, all these local terms were learn by word of mouth. Of course, I know now these are called Passiflora foetida belonging to family Passifloraceae


The small unripe fruits were green & surrounded by hairy bracts that seems to serves to protect the young fruits from insects.

As the fruits turns yellowish-orange as it ripes. Taste mildly sweet-sourish.

And as I walk our trail more often, I began discover yet another species of Passion Flower, Passiflora laurifolia

Local calls this Buah susu (in Malay), which translated as Milk Fruit. I’m not too sure why but they did look like miniaturized papaya ;P

The ripe fruit turn yellowish tastes sourish-sweet as well. Cut away show their translucent pulps enclosing the black seeds. That said, I never have a chance at picking fruits ripen on their vines. Early birds got them first, so this cut away is actually picked when green & ripen off the vine.

Now if you think Passiflora foetida is small, we do have an even smaller one called Passiflora suberosa

The ripen fruits turns dark purple, looks like small grapes. Since it aren’t documented anywhere as edible. I didn’t attempt to taste this

Occassionally, I find big orange Passion Fruits on sales at Sheng Siong supermarket. There are famous Indonesia Marquisa Passion Fruit. Heard these are grown only in highlands.

Juicy & sweet pulps that are delicious when chilled.

Some SG local farms are growing yet another called Passiflora edulis. Of course they aren’t grown on large scale for sales.

Recently, Sheng Siong Supermarket brought in these purple fruit Passiflora edulis that are being commercial grown in Malaysia.

Juicy orange pulps that taste somewhat like tangerine.

Not all Passiflora fruits. some are grown for ornamental uses like this Passiflora coccinea or maybe there are no pollinators aorund the area. Big, bright red flora, these flower really creates a visual eye candy.

I also found another Passiflora flower similar to Passiflora coccinea but smaller in size. I think it should goes under another species which I have no clue at all. I shall leave it at Passiflora spp.

Obviously, there are much more varieties of Passiflora around the world. Hopefully this posts will arouse your interest to becomes more passionate with Passiflora? LOLz