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Passiflora caerulea
The blue passion fruit - or the mburucujá as we call it - is a common plant in Uruguay. It has a remarkable flower and orange fruit. In Uruguay it is mainly used for tea. It is commonly mistaken with maracujá, a brazilian fruit.
Spotted on Nov 10, 2012
Submitted on Nov 10, 2012
7 Comments
Fantastic fruit and flower Patty. Thanks for the info.
I only found a yahoo answer from Argentina which sounds reasonable and suggest boiling 10 to 15 grams of leaves with a litre of water.
In Brazil they use the big, yellow fruit. Which is delicious and one of my favourites =)
Here you have an example, our local paper - one of the main ones - confuses maracujá with mburucujá: http://viajes.elpais.com.uy/2011/10/19/m...
Thank you very much Gerardo. Rubens, I think the tea is made with the leaves but let me check because I am using common sense... However, we don´t use it in mousses and other things as wikipedia suggests.
Brazilians do use maracujá a lot and they do mousse, ice-cream, juices and other things with the fruit; we don´t and have seen uruguayans confusing one and another.
This is what I have in my garden: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/161...
Hi Patty,
The tea you make are with all the parts of the flower ? It´s only with blue passion flower ?
Nice one Patty :)