Usually found in the Andes, Vines usually produce by the second year and can yield up to 300 fruits a vine when in full production. Beautiful red-pink flowers are borne at the ends of a long stalk. Flowers may attract hummingbirds. Fruits can ripen year round.

One of the more beautiful of the passionflowers with its ringed oval white sepals, reddish petals and a centre crown with 5 rows of numerous white and purple rays. The flowers are fragrant. It is a robust climber with winged stems and oval leaves. Known for its very large fruits.

This South American fruit is well known throughout the tropics. It is not fussy on the soil quality, and produces fruit year after year. The fragrant greenish white to white flower, 2.5 cm or more across, bears numerous yellow stamens. The fruits are variable in shape, size and colour being globular, ovoid, or pear shaped from 3 to 15cm in length and the skin may be greenish white, yellowish or pink. Upon ripening, the guava becomes soft and juicy and is an excellent source of C vitamin.

Very nice little shrub that produces 5-6cm edible pomegranates! These robust shrubs are beautiful in bloom. Will tolerate light frosts - it will behave deciduously.

Bushy shrub, usually to no more than 6m and can spread to 6-8m and can be trained as a hedge. When mature is somewhat hardy and able to survive short frosts but may defoliate in prolonged cold spells. It has pretty white-pink flowers in abundance that produce oblong berries, which ripen from green to yellow, then red. Best of all, the berries can be steeped in water to make a refreshing, lemonade-like drink.

This species similar to the Pepino (melon pear), but with smaller rounded fruits of about 2-3 cm wide. Green skin striped in purple, turning cream when fruit is fully ripe. White flesh turns yellow when mature. Tart, sour flavour that improves and gets sweeter with age. Earlier fruiting than the Pepino and easier to grow in cooler climates. Smaller plants, about 40-50 cm high or can crawl. Good ornamental potential with its long trusses of fruits hanging down. Can be grown in pots.

This annual to shrubby perennial from the lowlands of Ecuador has spiny stems and leaves and can grow to 1.5m. Its beautiful purple flowers become unusual large orange nipple shaped fruit, 3-6cm long and 3-5cm in diameter. The fruit is poisonous and should not be consumed but has medicinal uses especially in homeopathic remedies.