Common name: Red Pitaya, Dragon Fruit, Night-blooming Cactus
Hylocereus undatus (Haw.) Britton & Rose APNI* Synonyms: Cereus undatus Haw. APNI*
Description: Plant with long clambering stems, 3-winged, margins undulate, green. Segments to 1.5 m long, 3–8 cm diam. Areoles along edge of wings 3–4 c. apart; spines 1–4, 2–4 mm long; glochids absent.
Flowers 15–30 cm long, 15–25 cm diam.; outer segments greenish, some strongly reflexed, inner segments erect, white.
Fruit ± globose, 6–12 cm diam., red to purplish, pulp whitish, edible; seeds numerous, minute, black.
Distribution and occurrence: Widely cultivated in the tropics; a garden escape in N.S.W., not widespread.
NSW subdivisions: *NC
Text by G. J. Harden
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)
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