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Pitaya usually refers to fruit of the genus Stenocereus, while pitahaya or dragon fruit refers to fruit of the genus Selenicereus (formerly Hylocereus), both in the family Cactaceae. [3] The common name in English – dragon fruit – derives from the leather-like skin and scaly spikes on the fruit exterior.
The export has boosted India's exotic fruit exports, with the Ministry of Agriculture aiming to improve farmers' prices. Gujarat, India, has decided to change the name of the dragon fruit, claiming it is associated with China. [3] The fruit's shape is like a lotus, and it has been given a new Sanskrit name, kamalam.
The fruit is sweet, juicy, and succulent in superior agricultural varieties. The seed and the peel are not consumed. Apart from being eaten raw like other fruits, longan fruit is also often used in Asian soups, snacks, desserts, and sweet-and-sour foods, either fresh or dried, and sometimes preserved and canned in syrup. The taste is different ...
Because several parts of the flower besides the ovary may contribute to the structure of a fruit, it is important to understand how a particular fruit forms. [3] There are three general modes of fruit development: Apocarpous fruits develop from a single flower (while having one or more separate, unfused, carpels); they are the simple fruits.
Clymenia is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Rutaceae with two species. The genus is often included in Citrus. Clymenia fruits are a small hesperidium, a citrus fruit. Sweet and lemony in flavor, the tangerine-sized fruits are highly segmented, with yellow pulp, and a leathery rind.
The dragon is usually shown with its mouth open. [32] It may have been known as the (ūmu) nā’iru, which means "roaring weather beast", [32] and may have been associated with the god Ishkur (Hadad). [32] A slightly different lion-dragon with two horns and the tail of a scorpion appears in art from the Neo-Assyrian Period (911 BC–609 BC). [32]
Dilong, "earth dragon", one of many types of -long dragons such as shenlong and huanglong, the "Yellow Dragon". Qiulong, a Chinese dragon was contradictorily defined as "horned dragon" and "hornless dragon". Yinglong, "responsive dragon", is a winged dragon and rain deity in ancient Chinese mythology.
Two types of raspberry are available for commercial and domestic cultivation; the summer-bearing type produces an abundance of fruit on second-year canes (floricanes) within a relatively short period in midsummer, and double or "everbearing" plants, which also bear some fruit on first-year canes (primocanes) in the late summer and fall, as well ...