What is this?

[farmmom]

I found this vine out in a field and need help with ID.ImageUploadedByHomesteading Today1407422342.877171.jpgImageUploadedByHomesteading Today1407422369.286889.jpgImageUploadedByHomesteading Today1407422409.040236.jpg

[partndn]

It's a maypop, or passion fruit, has a few names.
Look up uses for passion fruit vine on google. It has some value.

Calming teas and relaxing properties.

The flowers are beautiful, and bees love them. For wild ones like you have, the fruit is not that tasty, but some like it. Pretty high pucker factor.

I warn it can be extremely invasive, at least at my house.

[FakeMountainMan]

I think they are delicious The one in your picture isn't ripe. For the most part, they won't be ripe until they fall off the vine, and then they get sweeter even as they sit a while. The best ones will usually be a little wrinkled like a big raisin. Open it up and pop the whole mess in your mouth, you can crunch the seeds up and all.

[Wren - TN]

Originally Posted by FakeMountainMan

I think they are delicious The one in your picture isn't ripe. For the most part, they won't be ripe until they fall off the vine, and then they get sweeter even as they sit a while. The best ones will usually be a little wrinkled like a big raisin. Open it up and pop the whole mess in your mouth, you can crunch the seeds up and all.

Yep, that's the way I eat them, too.

[Harry Chickpea]

Around here, passionfruit is called "wild apricot." You have to wait, pull the pods off then wait about another month, then the glop around the seeds is delicious. The flavor is the dominant flavor that kool-aid recreated in its Hawaiian Punch, but much more subtle and natural. The seeds can be bitter, so some people try to smush the glop through a strainer or press in a bag.

[farmmom]

Thanks!! I appreciate the help.

[Cliff]

Also, the dried leaves and flowers make a tasty very relaxing tea.

[hippygirl]

I haven't seen a maypop vine since I was a child living in TN...have eaten many of 'em!

[ronbre]

yeah I think they are a southern plant or indoors in N..