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Re:Washington crews destroy first U.S. “murder hornet” nest by Carioca on Sunday October 25, 2020 @06:24PM (#24890562)
As an example, passion fruit has to be pollinated by hand (with swabs or special gloves) even in most of its natural range (South America) because only certain species of Uruçu bees can be pollinate it, and they have become rare
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Re:Washington crews destroy first U.S. “murder hornet” nest by jdmichal on Sunday October 25, 2020 @08:33PM (#24891554)
Wikipedia mentions carpenter bees are quite capable. Which probably explains how my neighbor's gets pollinated. I know it's certainly not by hand.
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Re:Washington crews destroy first U.S. “murder hornet” nest by mkl on Monday October 26, 2020 @02:00AM (#24893203)
The purple passion fruit commonly grown in New Zealand (not native) doesn't need manual pollination. Not sure what does it, though there are many introduced honey bees and bumblebees alongside some native pollinators like butterflies.
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Re:Washington crews destroy first U.S. “murder hornet” nest by xerox13ster on Monday October 26, 2020 @09:43AM (#24896063)
I'm sorry, but could you provide a source on this? I know for a fact I grew up eating wild passion fruit from our property in the Ozarks.
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Re:Washington crews destroy first U.S. “murder hornet” nest by divinebovine on Monday October 26, 2020 @12:12AM (#24892765)
I've found wild passion fruit growing on my farm in East Texas. It had plenty of fruit growing on it.
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Re:Washington crews destroy first U.S. “murder hornet” nest by BenjiWiebe on Monday October 26, 2020 @01:09AM (#24892999)
I did some more research and I see that there is a Passiflora species (P. incarnata) that grows in Texas, but that isn't what is generally referred to as passion fruit. P. edulis would be what the above commenter is referring to.
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Re:Washington crews destroy first U.S. “murder hornet” nest by BenjiWiebe on Monday October 26, 2020 @01:04AM (#24892979)
Passion fruit isn't native to the US. Are you sure it was indeed passion fruit?
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Re:Washington crews destroy first U.S. “murder hornet” nest by Cytobit on Monday October 26, 2020 @04:00PM (#24900652)
This page from the University of Florida disagrees.

https://gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu/plants/ornamentals/p...

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