The flowers are followed by green fruit, turning Yellow when ripe. It is one of the most tropical of the passionfruit varieties, and a major commercial crop used in fruit juices.
In general, Heliconias are evergreen in the Tropics and warm Subtropics, like zone 10. Further north, upper zone 9 and lower zone 8, they may be frozen back to the ground each Winter but survive to resprout the next Spring.