The dragon fruit blossoms and bears fruit between July and December each year.

The dragon fruit likes light and shade, heat and drought, fertilizer and barren. Dragon fruit planted 12-14 months after the beginning of flowering and fruiting, flowering 12-15 times a year, April-November for the fruiting period, 30-40 days after the flower mature fruit, single fruit weight 500-1000 grams, planted in the second year of production of more than 20 fruits per column, the third year of the fruiting period, the yield can reach 2,500 kg/667 square meters.

The shape of dragon fruit is oblong or ovoid, the skin is thick and waxy, and the flesh is white or red. Dragon fruit is generally propagated through cuttings and grafting, and during the management period, it should be timely centering, and in the spring new shoots sprouting period and fruit expansion period to apply nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium compound fertilizer. Dragon fruit is divided into white and red, white taste general, red sweeter.

Introduction of dragon fruit

Dragon fruit, cactus cactus family measure the fruit of the genus climbing fleshy shrub, most of the branches have undulate or crenate edges, the color of the dark green to light blue-green; hairless, bony; thorns conical; berry is red oblong, umbilicus is small; the seeds are black obovate; the flowering period is the summer and autumn. It is named dragon fruit because it has a red coat with protrusions that look like flames and are also reminiscent of dragon scales.

Distribution of dragon fruit in Central America to the northern part of South America, widely cultivated around the world, in Hawaii, Australia, the eastern part of the escape for the wild; China was introduced in 1645, common cultivation, in Fujian, Guangdong, Hainan, Taiwan and Guangxi escape for the wild, by the root of the air climbing on the trunk, rock or wall, often born at an altitude of 3-300 meters. Dragon fruit is not only "flowers and fruits and ornamental, appreciation and food" gardening plants, has a great ornamental value, or subtropical, one of the tropical fruits.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia - Dragon Fruit (Cactaceae)