Introduction of common varieties of passion fruit

Passion fruit scientific name passion flower, delicious juicy, sweet and sour delicious, nutritious. Because its flesh can emit banana, pineapple, strawberry, litchi, lemon, mango, sour plum and so on more than ten kinds of fruit rich fragrance and named, has the "king of juice" reputation. So what are the common varieties of passion fruit?

I. Tainong No. 1

This variety is a hybrid variety with purple seed as female parent and yellow seed as male parent in Taiwan agricultural test.

1. Main features

Growth potential is more prosperous, moisture tolerance, disease resistance is slightly stronger. Stems, petioles and veins were green with purple tips, tendrils were green, but the fruit with purple.

The flower organ structure is similar to that of purple species, and its stigma is curved downward and has self-compatibility. The flowering period is from mid-late March to late November.

The fruit is slightly smooth, thinner than yellow seeds, and has finer white fruit spots. The fruit can weigh up to 120 grams. The fruit juice is thick yellow, with strong aroma and slightly low acidity.

2. Suitable planting area

It is suitable for planting in cool summer areas and is the main variety in Southeast Asia.

3. Precautions

Although Tainong 1 inherited many advantages of female parent and male parent, it was more resistant to virus disease, but the virus disease was more serious.

II. Purple Fragrance No.1

The variety is said to have been selected from grafted seedlings of Tainong No. 1 and named after an earlier company in Guangxi that commercialized passion fruit.

1. Main features

The fruit can be picked from the middle of June to the beginning of February of the following year, and the most concentrated harvest time is July and October respectively.

The fruit is oval in shape, the pericarp is purplish red and slightly hard, and the average fruit weight is 75g, slightly smaller than Tainong 1. The fruit juice content is about 28%, and the soluble solids content is 15%-16%.

2. Suitable planting area

It has strong adaptability and can be cultivated in areas with annual average temperature above 18℃ and coldest month average temperature above 8℃.

3. Precautions

This variety has few diseases and insect pests, mainly stem rot, fruit fly, red spider, etc. If it is properly prevented, the cost of medicine is not high. However, Zixiang 1 was less stable and less marketable than Tainong 1, and Zixiang 1 was mostly cuttings, so the possibility of carrying poison was high.

Third, the stars

This variety was introduced and improved from Indonesia in Taiwan Province, and its cause and effect table was dotted with stars.

1. Main features

The fruit is bigger, the average weight of a single fruit is 150 grams, the sweetness is high, the juice yield is as high as 40%, but there is no fragrance. More resistant to storage and transportation, suitable for fresh food.

2. Suitable planting area

This variety is a tropical variety, cold resistance is poor, there are frost areas to introduce more attention.

3. Precautions

The leaves of Gypsophila paniculata are also sweet, easy to provoke thrips, mites, etc., especially some mites also carry passion flower green spot virus (PFGSV), induce green spot disease.

IV. Golden Passion Fruit

In recent years, more fire varieties, because of its fruit surface golden body, inherent gold fruit said.

1. Main features

After planting in March, it began to blossom and bear fruit from April to May of the same year, and then blossomed and bear fruit while growing. The flowers of 2-year-old golden passion fruit were mainly concentrated in spring and autumn. Flowers bloomed after mid-to-late November, and fruits were difficult to change color and poor in quality when they met low temperature.

This variety has more juice, high sweetness and rich guava fragrance. It is one of the best-selling varieties in the market at present.

2. Suitable planting area

This variety has poor cold resistance, and fruit setting will be affected by continuous high temperature and drought in summer. More attention should be paid when introducing.

3. Precautions

This variety has higher requirement for environment, and its yield fluctuates greatly due to different management level. It is more resistant to stem rot.

Passion fruit is mainly cultivated in Guangxi, Guangdong, Guizhou, Hainan, Fujian, Yunnan, Taiwan, Vietnam, Southeast Asia and the Americas. It originated in the Antilles and is now widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions.

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