Developing fruit; P.R. China; 9/2009 © Joachim Sauerborn
Flower buds; P.R. China; 9/2009 © Joachim Sauerborn
Habit in plantation; P.R. China; 9/2009 © Joachim Sauerborn
Plantation; P.R. China; 9/2009 © Joachim Sauerborn
Inducing flowering by supplemented fluorescent light in a dragon fruit plantation ; Tân Bình, Càng Long District, Trà Vinh, Vietnam; 12/2019 © Jörn Germer
Identifier: 1854 Date of entry: 31.01.2012 Last update: 12.01.2020
English: Dragon Fruit
Kingdom: Plantae (2715)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)
Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)
Order: Caryophyllales (114)
Family: Cactaceae (20)(family description)
Genus: Hylocereus (1)
Epithet: undatus (Haw.) Britton & Rose (1)
undatus => not flat, billowy, undulate, waved
Climate: tropical
Flower colour: beige, white
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