The dragon fruit is not the fruit of a cactus.

It grows on the dragon fruit tree, but the dragon fruit tree also belongs to the cactus family of plants, and has thorns on its body, which is just more similar to a cactus. Its original name is red dragon fruit, green dragon fruit, native to the Central American region.

The origin of cactus is in Brazil, Mexico and some other desert areas of Central America, is a tropical plant. Cactus like sunshine, warmth, drought, fear of cold, fear of flooding, fear of acidic soil, suitable for growth in neutral, slightly alkaline soil, pH value of 7.0-7.5. This home cultivation cactus should be placed in the sunshine on the window sill, and choose to turn over the ice good slightly alkaline Yubawo sandy soil is appropriate.

The dragon fruit is a perennial climbing succulent. The plant does not have a main root, the lateral roots are widely distributed in the shallow surface soil layer, while there are many aerial roots, can be climbing growth. Dragon fruit is named after its appearance, which resembles an angry red ball of fire. The flesh inside is like sweet cream, but covered with small black seeds. The texture is mild and the flavor is refreshing.

Cactus Fruit Morphology:

The fruit of the cactus is a berry, obovoid, concave at the tip, more or less narrowly narrowed at the base to form a stipe, 4-6 centimeters in length, 2.5-4 centimeters in diameter, with a smooth, glabrous, purplish-red surface, each side with 5 The surface is smooth and glabrous, purplish-red, with 5-10 raised areoles per side, the areoles with short cotton hairs, barbed bristles and subulate spines.

Cactus berries are sweet and sour and edible. Cactus fruit is sweet, tender and juicy, generally eaten fresh; Mexico and other places also use the fresh fruit processed into canned or alcoholic beverages, but also can be added to honey, fresh milk ice into juice, and do ice cream flavor is better.