Pitaya fruit, auspicious fruit nickname immortals, high economic value, set fruits, flowers, vegetables, medicine the merits.soon. Not just to eat fruit, and are of very high nutritional value and tasty, has become a novelty, excellent green health food.
Pitaya to environmental conditions have special requirements, field planting, the tropic of cancer and matured, free from contamination, irrigation and convenient south of the shallow, mountain can grow high.
Pitaya fruit according to their skin colour can be divided into the red one white meat, red one red meat, yellow skin white meat 3 kinds big. For varieties and regional differences in Taiwan, the name is various, red meat of a lotus red dragon, ZunLong fon-lon cactus, rose red dragon, auspicious dragon and sweet dragon and the pearl dragon, dragon, etc. White BaiMi, fairy variety says white meat pitaya fruit, honey. In other Asian dragon fruit is much say and baihu fruit. In Central America are English zone countries or Spain, Portuguese countries would put all the cactus fruit called pitaya fruit namely dragon pitahaya, or fon-lon cactus.