The girlfriend and I were at the BRFC meeting the other night, our first meeting and yes we joined. I was impressed at the how many people show for a meeting. I asked the guy sitting next to me if that was normal, and he said that it pretty much was.

I picked up a Purple Haze, Haley's Comet, Dark Star and a Vietnamese Jaina (white flesh), the GF picked the Physical Graffiti and the Yellow. Will have to wait and see where her's actually get planted. I have a suspicion that her's will be planted at my place. Tho after seeing the pictures from the presentaion of what they can look like on a trellis, she may go ahead and put one or both in her yard.

On the tasting table, there were two different varieties of the white (cant remember the names). I thought one had more flavor than the other, hoping it was a Jaina.

I was looking at all the cuttings and stuff while waiting for the tasting table line to shorten. And got to talk to the guy giving the DF presention (Matt Snow), nice guy, picked his brain a little.

DM

 

After reading this, I would only buy the red flesh Dragon Fruits from now on.


White Flesh/Pink Skin
Dragon fruit that has white flesh and pink skin or rind is the most common variety of the fruit. This type is called Hylocereus Undatus, and its flesh is not as sweet as dragon fruit with red or pink flesh. This variety may be sold under the name Alice, Cosmic Charlie, David Bowe, Guyute, Harpua, L.A. Woman, Neitzel, Seoul Kitchen, Thompson and Vietnamese Jaina.

Red or Pink Flesh/Pink Skin
Dragon fruit that has a pink skin or rind and flesh that is colored rather than white, is called Hylocereus Polyrhizus. This variety of dragon fruit is sweeter in taste than the white flesh variety and often larger in size. This variety may be sold under the name Bloody Mary, Red Jania, Voodoo Child and Zamorano.

White Flesh/Yellow Skin
The yellow skin/white flesh variety of dragon fruit tends to be both the smallest and the sweetest variety. This variety is called Selenicereus megalanthus,and is grown primarily in South America. It's not produced on the mass scale that other varieties are. This is sold only as yellow dragon fruit.