The English word for dragon fruit is pitaya.

The dragon fruit (scientific name: Hylocereus undatus 'Foo-Lon', English: pitaya) is a cultivar of the cactus family, Measurement of Heaven, a genus of Measurement of Heaven, a climbing fleshy shrub with aerial roots. Branches numerous, extended, leaf blade ribs often winged, margins undulate or crenate, dark green to light blue-green, bony; flowers funnel-shaped, opening at night.

Scales ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, calyx tepals yellowish-green, linear to linear-lanceolate, petaloid tepals white, oblong-oblanceolate, filaments yellowish-white, styles yellowish-white, berries red, oblong-globose, umbilicus small, flesh white, red. Seeds obovate, black, umbilicus small. flowers and fruits from July to December.

Growing environment:

The dragon fruit is a tropical, subtropical fruit, light and shade, heat and drought, fertilizer and barren. In a warm, humid, well-lit environment, rapid growth. Its stems attached to the rocks can also grow, the plant is extremely wind-resistant, as long as the bracket is strong enough to resist typhoons.

The dragon fruit is resistant to 0 ℃ low temperature and 40 ℃ high temperature, the optimal temperature for the growth of 25-35 ℃. Dragon fruit can be adapted to a variety of soils, but with more humus, water retention and fertilization of neutral soil and weakly acidic soil is good.