Hylocereus undatus - Red Pitaya, Dragon Fruit Cactus
By Delonix1
5 Sep, 2009
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Dragon Fruit cactus is very widely grown here along walls and fences and up into trees. This is my plant which is on the front yard wall under the large Norfolk Island Pine - Araucaria heterophylla...which gives this cactus to much shade to fruit. Unfortunately, this flower was closing up.
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Wow, very exotic
5 Sep, 2009
I saw my first H. undatus flower at Kew a few weeks ago; I was very impressed but the flowers had closed by 10am!
6 Sep, 2009
Thanks for the comments!
Rbtkew, yes they do close by 10:00 a.m.
The best time to see the flowers is in the very early morning hours around 5 or 6:00 a.m.
6 Sep, 2009
God, I'd never see them - that's the middle of the night as far as I'm concerned...
7 Sep, 2009
Bamboo:
It is a night-blooming cactus. : > )
8 Sep, 2009
i missed one of my night flowers yesterday....;-(( this is stunning..
8 Sep, 2009
Sandra:
Thanks!
I missed another flower which was actually growing on the ground
about 3 days ago. It's too bad they bloom at night...when most of us
are sleeping or in the house.
13 Sep, 2009
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See who else is growing Hylocereus undatus - Red Pitaya, Dragon Fruit Cactus.
See who else has plants in genus Hylocereus.
looks like Grammazoo's dragon fruit grew up! lol... wonderfully scaley cowl that encloses such magnificent flowers!
5 Sep, 2009