Passiflora edulis black beauty produces beautiful flowers. Great over a fence and stunning on a pergola where the large green leaves can provide shade all year, with the added bonus of a vibrant flower display in Summer and tasty fruits in Autumn. It climbs by means of clinging tendrils and can be kept as an container plant. The long tendrils need lots of support for climbing. It may be grown as a houseplant in a sunny South-facing window. It is a vigorous evergreen vine with deep green shiny leaves and attractive mauve and white flowers. Flowering will occur over a long period of the growing season. It produces roundish dark purple fruits with juicy aromatic flavour. Harvest when fruit changes from green to dark purple. Pruning is a must to keep the vine healthy. Prune off less vigorous growth and occasionally prune back vigorous growth to promote flowering. When established, and without care, the passion fruit can easily overtake other garden plants, shading them from sun. Hardiness zone 10, (1øC/35øF) in Winter. It has only mild hardiness, surviving temperatures to 35øF, so protect from any frosts. Provide ideally a temperature of 15ø-28øC in Summer and 13-18øC through the Winter. It will do best in a loam based mix with a little peat moss. Like full sun and will scramble over trees and shrubs to get it. You may need to water your plants on a daily basis during the hottest Summer months. During the Winter the roots should be kept moist, but as growth will be much slower you will probably only need to water once a week, depending on growing temperature. Fertilize at least once every two weeks in the growing season. If their pot is too large or if they have an unrestricted root run then the whole plant will simply get bigger and bigger but it will refuse to flower and therefore produce the fruits. By limiting the pot size you are limiting the ability to grow and this is seen as a threat, so the natural mechanism is to produce seed for the next generation. A suitably sized pot for an adult plant would generally be of 12 inches in diameter.