It’s dragonfruit season! Yay! It comes from the hylocereus cactus, a few different species and colors but this seems to be H. undatus.
How to eat Dragon Fruit. The simplest way to eat Dragon Fruit is to cut the Dragon Fruit in half and scoop out the juicy sweet flesh with a spoon. Dragon Fruit makes a delicious fruit juice and can also be added to salads to give them a touch of the exotic.
Cactus can be so different than what you expect – here we have a cactus growing very nicely in the jungles of Thailand. Well, this looks more like an orchard, but it’s still pretty wet there, and these cacti are thriving and providing a lot of delicious dragonfruit.
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October 19th, 2011 at 8:00 am
[...] It’s possible you have a former Heliocereus, which more recently has been moved to Disocactus, but it is more likely a Hylocereus which produce the Dragon Fruit http://www.cactusjungle.com/blog/2009/07/15/pitaya/</ [...]