133/365: Rind

sigh. At the rate I'm going, it'll take me two years to post all my 365 photos. Taking images isn't a problem--processing to an acceptable standard, them uploading and blogging about them are proving to demand more time than I have available. But I'm still trying!

As I've said before, I'm a passion flower fan, and love passion fruit of all types. The fruit themselves are almost as alien as the flowers. Here's the inside of the rind from a passiflora edulis fruit--the commercial purple variety. The pulpy arils that envelop the seeds grow from puckered swellings lining the inside of the rind in a trio of vertical strips. There's something otherworldly about this. Can you tell I'm fascinated by this plant?