Sweet granadilla is native to the Andes Mountains in Southern Mexico: Mexico - Chiapas, Colima, Michoacán, Oaxaca, Puebla, Veracruz; Mesoamerica: Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Panama; Nicaragua; Northern South America: Venezuela; and Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador; Peru; Costa Rica. Throughout this region, it is popular and abundant in the markets. It has been grown in Hawaii since late in the 19th Century. In 1916, the United States Department of Agriculture received seeds from Quito, Ecuador. The vine is not suited to California, has been grown in greenhouses in Florida but has never survived for long. Northern gardeners sometimes plant it as a summer.