Taxon: Hylocereus undatus (Haw.) Britton & Rose

Species on the following lists:

• CITES Appendix II
  
• Check conservation status and distribution in NatureServe Explorer database

Common names:

• belle-of-the-night   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• dragon-fruit   (Source: Cact Fam ) – English
  
• moonlight cactus   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• night-blooming cereus   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• queen-of-the-night   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• red pitaya   (Source: Acta Hort 575) – English
  
• strawberry-pear   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• pitahaya rouge   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• pitaya   (Source: Food Feed Crops US ) – French
  
• Distelbirne   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• chacam   (Source: Cact Fam ) – Spanish
  
• chak-wob   (Source: Cact Fam ) – Spanish
  
• junco tapatío   (Source: Cact Fam ) – Spanish
  
• pitahaya   (Source: Cornucopia ) – Spanish
  
• pitahaya dulce   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• pitahaya orejona   (Source: Cact Fam ) – Spanish
  
• reina de la noche   (Source: Cact Fam ) – Spanish
  
• tasajo   (Source: Cact Fam ) – Spanish
  
• zacamb   (Source: Cact Fam ) – Spanish
  
• röd pitahaya   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Zander ed14; Cornucopia)
  
• Human food: beverage base   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Human food: fruit   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Human food: vegetable   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  

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Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Southern Africa: South Africa
  Western Indian Ocean: Reunion
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Taiwan
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - New South Wales [n.e.], Queensland [e.]
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Florida
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  Southwestern Pacific: New Caledonia; Niue
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Brazil: Brazil
  Southern South America: Chile - Juan Fernandez

• widely cultivated

• origin neotropics

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Anderson, E. F. 2001. The cactus family.
• Angely, J. A. 1970–. Flora analítica e fitográfica do Estado de São Paulo.
• Backeberg, C. 1978. Das Kakteen Lexikon. 194.
• Benson, L. 1982. The cacti of the United States and Canada. [= Cereus undatus Haw.].
• Bravo-Hollis, H. & H. Sánchez-Mejorada. 1978. Las Cactáceas de México, vol. 1 - 1978, vols. 2,3 - 1991
• CITES. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Appendices I, II and III (on-line resource).
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Forzza, R. C. et al., coord. Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil (on-line resource).
• Fournet, J. 1978. Flore illustree des phanerogames de Guadeloupe et de Martinique.
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia.
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• IPGRI. New World Fruits Database (on-line resource).
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• León (J. S. Sauget) & Alain (E. E. Liogier). 1946–1962. Flora de Cuba.; suppl. 1969
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Liogier, H. A. & L. F. Martorell. 1982. Flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands: a systematic synopsis.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Moscoso, R. M. 1943. Catalogus florae domingensis.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Robertson, S. A. 1989. Flowering plants of Seychelles. [cultivated].
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala.
• Taylor, N. & D. Zappi. 2004. Cacti of eastern Brazil.
• To, L. V. et al. 2002. Dragon Fruit Quality and Storage Life: Effect of Harvest Time, Use of Plant Growth Regulators and Modified Atmosphere. Acta Hort. 575: 611–621.
• Wagner, W. L. et al. 1990. Manual of the flowering plants of Hawai'i.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Hylocereus undatus.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Hylocereus undatus.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Hylocereus undatus.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Cereus undatus Haw. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Hylocereus undatus (Haw.) Britton & Rose:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• New World Fruits Database: Online database from Bioversity International
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Hylocereus undatus cultivars
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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