Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical Garden #99, 1 by dyzzypyxxy

dyzzypyxxy wrote:
Sharon, I have tasted nasties in salads, and the flavor is sweet and peppery. They can be quite hot, in fact. My dh likes eating them but I prefer visual enjoyment.
They make great cut flowers, in fact there are a few in a vase on the kitchen counter now.

I had a start of the Ric Rac plant last fall, but I have lost it. It was laying in a pot - and making roots! - with something else that got moved. It will very likely turn up when I get poked by its thorns out in the garden somewhere!

I just found another cactus out in my jungle - Dragon fruit, climbing towards the top of the fence! That vertical stem is new since I saw it last. Hope it blooms this summer! Wonder if it is related to the Ric Rac? Flowers are similar in shape, and it has the same evenly spaced little thorns on the stem/leaves.