Before serving, cover the pavlova in whipped cream and decorate with passion-fruit pulp and fresh kiwifruit.

Some describe its oil profile as fresh crushed gooseberries; others say they get more passion-fruit and tangerines.

Young passion-fruit vines barely concealing the fences' nakedness, a mango, a few small orange trees now in flower.

There was a thick creeper of passion-fruit vines behind her, and through it she could hear Tettawonga talking to the cook.

Put the passion-fruit pulp in a food processor and whizz for a few seconds to loosen the seeds from the flesh.

If she had been like all the other women in whose company he had eaten passion-fruit, he would not have felt this carking humiliation.

"It's this passion-fruit kind from Oaxaca," Nona said.