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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.
For the uninitiated, dragon fruit can be intimidating. ... purple, and yellow. That skin has scales that aren’t spiky or dangerous in any way, but do resemble dragon skin; hence the name. ...
The fruit produced is a pepo and entirely fleshy (making it botanically a berry) and is spherical to ovoid. [3] The outside color of the pepo ranges from dark purple with fine white specks to light yellow. [1] The fruit is 4–7.5 cm in diameter; purple fruits are smaller, weighing around 35 grams, while yellow fruits are closer to 80 grams. [3]
Dragonfruit stems are scandent (climbing habit), creeping, sprawling or clambering, and branch profusely. There can be four to seven of them, between 5 and 10 m (16 and 33 ft)or longer, with joints from 30 to 120 cm (12 to 47 in) or longer, and 10 to 12 cm (3.9 to 4.7 in) thick; with generally three ribs; margins are corneous (horn-like) with age, and undulate.
Grevillea plurijuga is a prostrate to low-lying or dense mounded to erect shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.6–3 m (2 ft 0 in – 9 ft 10 in) and up to 3.5 m (11 ft) wide.
The species is grown commercially for its yellow fruit, but is also an impressive ornamental climbing vine with perhaps the largest flowers of all cacti. The yellow skinned fruit of S. megalanthus has thorns, unlike the green, red or yellow skinned dragon fruits of S. undatus, S. monacanthus and their cultivated hybrids.
The fruit contains a sweet soft pulp resembling a white dragon fruit, eaten primarily in Japan as a seasonal delicacy. The rind, with a slight bitter taste, is used as vegetable, stuffed with ground meat and deep-fried. Often eaten fresh, the Akebia fruit is best after it fully opens naturally on the vine. [7]
Schisandra chinensis, whose fruit is called magnolia berry [3] or five-flavor fruit (Chinese: 五味子; pinyin: wǔwèizǐ, in Korean: 오미자, romanized: omija, Japanese: ゴミシ, romanized: gomishi), [4] [1] [5] is a vine plant native to forests of Northern China, the Russian Far East and Korea. [6] Wild varieties are also found in Japan ...