Pitaya began to blossom and bear fruit 12- 14 months after planting. It can bloom 12- 15 times a year, and the fruiting period is 4- 1 1 month. The fruit ripens 30-40 days after withering, and the single fruit weighs 500-65438.
Pitaya is a perennial climbing succulent plant. Plants have no main roots, and lateral roots are widely distributed in shallow soil. At the same time, there are many aerial roots to climb and grow. The flower is white, with a huge ovary below. It is about 30 cm long, so it is also called Lady Enforcers.
The fruit is oblong or ovoid, the peel is red, fleshy, with oval sharp scales at the top, long10-12cm, thick and waxy. The pulp is white or red. There are nearly ten thousand sesame seeds with fragrance, so it is called sesame fruit.
Pitaya; pitaya; dragon fruit
Pitaya is a cultivated variety, belonging to cactus family, climbing fleshy shrub with air roots.
Many branches, extension, often winged leaves, wavy or crenate edges, dark green to light blue-green, bony; Flowers funnel-shaped and open at night; Scales are ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, calyx-shaped perianth is yellow-green, linear to linear-lanceolate, petaloid perianth is white, oblong-oblanceolate, filaments are yellow-white, styles are yellow-white, berries are red, oblong, fruit umbilicus is small, and pulp is white-red.
Pitaya is sweet, and its main nutrients are protein, dietary fiber, vitamin B2, vitamin B3, vitamin C, iron, phosphorus, calcium, magnesium and potassium.
It is rich in pulp fiber, carotene, vitamins B 1, B2, B3, B 12, C and so on. Kernel (the seed of black sesame) is rich in minerals such as calcium, phosphorus and iron, various enzymes, albumin, fiber and high concentration of natural pigment anthocyanin (especially red meat), and flowers, stems and buds are more similar.
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