{"id":7144,"date":"2010-08-21T11:58:25","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T15:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=7144"},"modified":"2011-10-10T11:10:06","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T15:10:06","slug":"dragon-fruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=7144","title":{"rendered":"Dragon Fruit"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first bloom this year of the dragon fruit<\/a>, that is, the first bloom that I can see, dangling over a boundary fence we share with a neighbor.<\/p>\n

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Looking a bit more carefully, I could see more flowers and even a fruit was already forming. <\/p>\n

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An epiphytic cactus, my neighbor grows it as a vine over trellising. This is a different genus than the epiphyllum, the more familiar orchid cactus with the wildly intense colors. These are enormous flowers, the bowl of the bloom at least 5 inches across, leaning against the fence bordering my neighbor’s property. His property has become quite shaded from the amazing jungle he’s planted, and this dragon fruit or pitaya<\/em> seems to be reaching for some sun. Our driveway runs along this fence, so there must be good reflected heat as well. <\/p>\n

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My neighbor’s dragon fruit must be Hylocereus undatus. I remember the flesh of the fruit being white when he’s given us dragon fruit in the past.
\nI’d never heard the name pitaya<\/em> before today, from the Wikipedia<\/a> entry on dragon fruit, nor knew that it is native to Mexico, Central America, and South America. Zone 10 or 11.
\nIt is believed the French introduced<\/a> this fruit to Vietnam. <\/p>\n

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More flowers in bud. At the very lower left just a glimpse of the grey-painted pergola can be seen on which this cactus drapes, built over the walkway to his front door.<\/big><\/p>\n

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