Just wanted to make y'all's mouths water. I forgot to put guavas, passion fruits and avacados in the photo. I'll do better next time. Here are two kinds of star fruit, a dragon fruit and Meyer lemons.
Texas grown fruits
Very nice, I have never eaten Star fruit or Dragon fruit.
What are they like?
Josephine.
Star fruit is crunchy, sort of sweet-tart, the taste is hard to describe. It's good fresh or in salads with yogurt dressing. Dragon fruit tastes like watermelon.
Maybe home grown Star fruit are tastier, but the store bought ones are sort of bland. I do like the shape and they do make a great addition to a salad. Does the Dragon fruit go by another name? I have seen photos of of a cactus that grows as a single long wavey edged stem with fruit similar to your Dragon Fruit. Can you post a photo of the plant? Would it be something that can be grown in a pot?
Betty, starfruit from the store is bland, tree-ripened is much better and some varieties are sweeter than others. The juice from the starfruit makes a great pie but we love to slice them and eat them fresh.
Dragon fruit flowers are large, like night blooming cereus or epi cactus. The stems are very long with fuzzy stickers on the ridges. It is a hylocereus, also called pitahaya.
They make very large plants, climbing up the trunks of trees and hanging down from the crown. I'll try to get a picture, it might be this weekend, it's barely light when I leave for work and sometimes dark when I get home.
I've been wanting to grow pitahaya - could it survive in zone 8B?
Meyer lemons ripen here in December.
Yuska, the info I found said it was hardy to 27*F. I know they survived 26*F, but they were covered with blankets and insulation and the temps only dropped that low for a little while. They lost some of their limbs/branches, but bloomed this year.
Worth a try, then. One year we had three successive nights at 19F, but 27F is more likely. I can be prepared to wrap. There is a very active Yahoo group re pitayas with over 1,00 members all over the world...I'll look there for a supply source. Thanks for the info!
Josephine you must try a star fruit, we had mangos, star fruit, lemon, limes and tons of everything else during our time in Mexico.
Mitch
I love fruits, all kinds, are you saying that I should try to grow it? or buy some and try it.
I wouldn't know where to find the plant to begin with. Do you?
Josephine.
No try to eat it! They are good even if all we can do up here is buy them... sad, mango, papaya, star fruit, lechees, all foods we cannot grow but must look buy... if we keep getting warmer one day we will!