Several mornings ago, after a day and night of rain, I went out on the terrace to check on the garden and found…
Yikes, one of my Pitahaya (Hylocereus undatus – aka, Dragon fruit) had bloomed overnight! Must be a relative of my other Night Blooming Cereus.
Two years ago, the original cuttings had been laying in the campo of a friend in San Martín Tilcajete. When Chris (Oaxaca-The Year After) asked if we could have some, the answer was, “¡Por supuesto!” Loving the wall of Pitahaya at Centro Académico y Cultural San Pablo, six months later, with the original five cuttings becoming fifteen, I could use them to begin to screen the chain link fence at the new Casita Colibrí. I kept pruning and sticking them in the planter boxes.
June 2, 2014, 8:40 AM
And now, they have begun blooming. Having missed the “night-blooming” of my first flower, I was determined not to miss the unfolding of the second blossom, seen above near the top of the pole, providing the weather cooperated. It did!
June 2, 2014, 7:20 PM
June 2, 2014, 8:40 PM
June 2, 2014, 11:00 PM
By the next day, it had closed, never to reopen again.
June 2, 2014, 2:54 PM
However, there will be fruit…
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In Texas we call “pitayas”-dragon fruit. I remember seeing a breathtaking wall of “pitayas” inside the Centro Cultural Santo Domingo. I miss “pitayas”, but here they are awfully expensive ($4-5 a piece!!) and you never know if they are going to be any good. ¡Disfrútelas!
Thanks, I meant dragon fruit! I’ve corrected it. Can’t wait to see and harvest the fruit.
Beautiful!
Yes, I couldn’t believe how beautiful and big the flowers were.
Thank you for sharing! 🙂
Wow, these are stunning! I wonder if this plant is related to the Orchid Cactus, which looks similar except the “stems” are flat. The bud and flower also resembles this, and lasts for only one day.(at least on my plant).
Yes, I think they are both a kind of night blooming cereus.
Gorgeous. Mine have bloomed twice but they are night bloomers.
Yes, definitely at their best in the middle of the night. Yours bloomed twice? Wow! Maybe mine will, too.
Absolutely gorgeous! In my view, that is an excellent date for a first bloom. 😎
I’m guessing the rains stimulate the plant to blossom. Hopefully more to come. 😉
Beautiful!
Mother Nature is pretty amazing!
We really enjoyed your pictures … We have many young ones in my backyard…We have cooked young flower buds and usually the fruits go really good with home made yogurt with agave for sweetener. Como degusta las pitayas Usted?(How do you eat them, yourself?)
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