Dragon fruit (Kamalam): An excellent exotic fruit crop of India

Dragon fruit (Hylocereus spp.) is one of the exotic grown across world. Fruit has very attractive colour and mellow mouth melting pulp with black seed embedded in along tremendous nutritive property which attract growers from different part India to cultivate this crop originated Mexico Central & South America. It a long day plant beautiful night blooming flower that nick named as “Noble Woman” or “Queen Night”. pitaya because bracts scales on skin hence name means ‘‘the scaly fruit’’. Pitaya most nutritious wonderful fruits. favorite many, particularly people Asian origin. There are four types dragon based their colour. 1. Hylocereus undatus i.e., red white flesh. 2. polyrhizus 3. megalanthus yellow 4. costaricencis pink violet