Photo Friday: Passion flower

NSW Southern Highlands; January 2006

This stunning flower will trade beauty for taste as it turns into a wrinkly purple-brown passion fruit. Cut it open – or tear it open with your teeth – and devour the pulpy orange and black seeds inside. Awesome on their own, or as a topping on ice cream or desserts such as pavlova

Passion vines grow not just in tropical and sub-tropical climes but in warm temperate zones as well. They’re quite common in Sydney backyards, and this one was from the side of my father’s farm house in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, south of Sydney – a place where there are frequent frosts and occasional snow in winter.

This post is part of Photo Friday, a weekly blogging event by Debbie at DeliciousBaby. Please check out all this week’s submissions.