Some highly perfumed passion fruits are eaten as delicate dessert fruits, as the giant granadilla P. quadrangularis. The purple granadilla P. edulis and the yellow granadilla P. laurifolia, as well as the wild passion-flower, are widely grown in tropical America for their fruit. Passiflora maliformis is the sweet calabash of the West Indies. The size of these fruits usually does not exceed that of a hen’s egg, but that of the giant granadilla is like a gourd and may weigh up to seven or eight pounds.