Pitaya is a tropical fruit. It belongs to cactus, a climbing succulent shrub with many branches, often winged leaves, wavy or crenate edges, dark green to light blue-green, funnel-shaped flowers and open at night.

Scales are ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, calyx-shaped perianth is yellow-green, linear to linear-lanceolate, petaloid perianth is white, oblong-oblanceolate, filaments are yellow-white, styles are yellow-white, berries are red, oblong, fruit umbilicus is small, and pulp is white-red.

Morphological characteristics:

Plants have no main roots, and lateral roots are widely distributed in shallow soil. At the same time, there are many aerial roots to climb and grow. Rhizomes are dark green, stout, 7 meters long, 10- 12 cm thick, and have three edges. The edge is flat and the edge is wavy. Climbing roots grow on stem nodes, which can climb on other plants. There are three edges, and there are small thorns in the depression of each stem node. ?

Pitaya branches and leaves:

Because of its long-term growth in tropical desert areas, its leaves have degenerated, and its photosynthetic function is borne by its stems. Inside the stem is a large number of parenchyma cells filled with viscous liquid, which is beneficial to absorb as much water as possible in rainy season.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Pitaya