Guatemalan Fruits: Banana passionfruit

I wonder how many variations of the passion fruit we have in Guatemala. Let’s count the obvious ones: Granadilla, Chirimoya, Maracuyá, and now Banana passionfruit. I am sure I am missing a few others. The Banana passionfruit shown here is the Passion tripartita var. mollissima.

Banana passionfruit is the fruit of several plants in the genus Passiflora, and are therefore related to the passion fruit. They look somewhat like a straight, small banana with rounded ends. It was given this name in New Zealand, where passionfruit are also prevalent. In Hawaii, it is called banana poka. In its Latin American homeland, it is known as curuba, curuba de Castilla, or curuba sabanera blanca (Colombia); taxo, tacso, tagso, tauso (Ecuador); parcha, taxo (Venezuela), tumbo or curuba (Bolivia); tacso, tumbo, tumbo del norte, trompos, tintin or purpur (Peru). Source: Wikipedia.

The Banana passionfruit is in season right now in Guatemala. Stop by your nearest mercado to get a dozen or so for about $1.

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