The dragon fruit, or pitahaya, can usually be found in the department for exotic fruit in the supermarket, but you can also take the exotic cactus into your living room as a houseplant.
In front of the fruit, this snake cactus gets a huge, impressive flower that is hardly inferior to the famous Queen of the Night. They can be up to 30cm tall. will be.
Hylocereus grows relatively fast for a cactus and is also very robust. Its triangular & nbsp; light green shoots are easy to care for, only waterlogging should be avoided
Name: dragon fruit, pitahaya
Botanical name: Hylocereus undata
Home: Mexico
Pot size: 14cm
Total height (without suspension): approx. 25cm
Location: light to very light, warm window seat - in summer also outdoors
Watering: little, the earth can dry out - even less in winter - avoid waterlogging
Flower: So that your dragon fruit begins to flower, you should have a resting phase. Set them cooler over winter, at around 10-15 ° C.
Whether it will work with the fruit, however, is uncertain, since in our latitudes there is usually no fruit.
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