Passion Fruit Flower Metal Print

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These exotic tropical passion fruit flowers bloom from April to November, giving way to tart yellow fruit about 3 inches in diameter. The vines are vigorous, often growing over 20ft in a single year. The yellow fruit falls from the plant when ripe. Fruits are best eaten when wrinkles appear on their surface. Pulp is often eaten fresh, seeds are edible. Used as a flavoring in drinks, desserts, sauces, and many other foods. The lilikoi is of an unknown origin. In recent years, the lilikoi (its Hawaiian name) has been well established throughout the Pacific Islands and parts of Central and South America.

I've lived in Hawaii since 2002, 1200 feet above sea level, on the small rural island of Moloka'i. It is very quiet here, with only about 7,400 residents. I appreciate the quiet life after spending 35 years as a commercial illustrator, senior art director and design director for major advertising agencies and design studios in Chicago, San Francisco and Palo Alto California. I've always loved cooking. In 2002 that love led me to a degree in the Culinary Arts just before moving to Hawaii. Since then I designed and built a house, worked in local restaurants, self-published three cookbooks, and took up photography as a hobby. Now retired, I spend most of my time developing recipes and photographing them, plus researching and writing...