The fruit is either yellow or purple (depending on the variety, see below), round, and about 5-8 cm/2-3 inches across. It has a smooth, thick, pithy rind, filled with sweet, aromatic pulp, juice and seeds. Passionfruit vines climb up any support, readily and rapidly, and they climb as high as the support will allow.Click to see full answer. Beside this, are Lilikoi and passion fruit the same thing?Yellow Passion Fruit, a.k.a. Passiflora edulis var. flavicarpa, is indeed the same thing as lilikoi. Lilikoi, is the Hawaiian word for passionfruit and it is pronounced like combining the girl’s name Lilly with those big Japanese goldfish, Koi.Likewise, how long does passion fruits take to mature? Time to Maturity Passion fruit vines propagated by either method take two to three years to reach maturity, flower and begin to bear fruit. In general, yellow passion fruit vines grow faster, fruit more quickly and produce larger crops. The fruit of both yellow and purple varieties takes two to three months to ripen. Beside this, what does Lilikoi look like? Definition of Lilikoi Passion Fruit are anywhere from 1 and 1/2 – 3″ wide, have a smooth yet tough rind, and range in color from dark purple with white specks to pale yellow or pumpkin colored. When you cut them open they are filled with little sacs containing its pulpy juice as well as many, many black seeds.What are the different types of passion fruit? Edible passion fruits can be divided into three main types: purple passion fruit (fruits of Passiflora edulis Sims), yellow passion fruit (Passiflora edulis f. flavicarpa Deg.), giant granadilla (Passiflora quadrangularis L.).