It's NOT Dragon Fruit, It's Peruvian Apple Cactus! 

want more cactus fruit? 🌵 Here's a comparison on the red, white and yellow dragon fruit ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-57xVmaFv5BI.html

Weird fact. They use the branches from those dragon fruit plants as a base to graft a ball cactus on top of and they will grow as if they were one plant. Usually for sale in plant shops as a cactus but its actually a frankenplant

cereus cacti are a common garden plant where I live. A lot of people grow them for the decorative flowers and fruits and don't even know they are edible.

These fruits are highly variable and I have some that taste just mildly sweet, one tastes a lot like strawberry kiwi Capri sun. I'm growing out hundreds of cuttings and seedlings of it in Florida as these are hardy to zone 9.

Excellent comparison. Try putting them in the refrigerator for a day before eating them. They are better chilled in my opinion. Heading over to Wallace Ranch to decide what varieties to send you next week!!!!! 🐉❤️

Should give blueberry cactus a whirl, Myrtillocactus geometrizans Cacti fruits all taste about the same with varying levels of snot

There's weirdness among common fruits too, like a type of mango in my grandmas garden taste exactly like papaya (sadly I don’t know what species of mango that is). If you serve someone slices of that mango there's no way he can tell for sure it’s not papaya. The texture is also similar to papaya even has a papaya kinda smell, I was surprised the first time I tasted it.

With how cacti are typically slimy on the inside I find it more fascinating that the dragon fruit has less of it.

Oh wow! So that's a relative to what's growing in my yard. The cactus and the fruit that grows from it look very close to this Peruvian Cactus. The only significant difference is that the fruit is much smaller, like between a cherry and plumb in size. It still has the black seeds and the white slimy rind, as well as having those swirls. The difference in taste is that it's sweeter than white dragon fruit, has zero tartness (like lychee), but the pink/red skin has a rose water aftertaste. I would love to know what species it is as well as how to better take care of it (i.e. it grows fruit rarely, and with the Florida rains the fruit it does grow sometimes cause the rind to split the skin.

Amazing how different they are yet still look similar

The yellow dragonfruits we sometimes get here in Australia have that same swirly pattern in them

Having eaten a lot of these, it’s best to pick them a couple days before they split, and let them ripen slowly until they are bright pink. At that point the amazing floral aroma and flavor come out strong. If they don’t ripen slowly you’ll miss the aroma which is similar to roses or lilacs

Awesome video! Cactus fruits always look so fun. Interesting that this one tastes more like watermelon than the dragon fruits, but mind blowing to learn the skins of both are edible 🤯

I grow several varieties of these. My two best varieties have a very sweet floral taste and they are fantastic frozen. Once variety I threw out because it was disgusting.

I’d be curious to see a top 10 fruits by texture. I like your favorite fruits by taste or by strangeness but something just texturally focused would be cool.

mine are sweet and help with a sugar kick. I like them due to the big white flowers that bloom at night and attract moon moths

Omg finally a fruit I actually know! We used to grow these in AZ all over. They will take to the desert there very well. It's often hard to get a good harvest because birds will go bananas for the fruit. I recomend cooking it into muffins, the flavor and texture is like a cross between poppy seed, and banana bread, with a hint of cactus. It's also great in fruit salads and can be prepared as a dressing for greens.

The flowers look similar too! Growing a Peruvian apple cactus to cross pollinate with a dragon fruit vine. Dragon fruit plant takes longer to bloom in New York City. Maybe next summer I do the experiment.

Amazing the power of convergent evolution to find basically the same designs over and over from different starting points!

3:56 Pulpy, slimy, juicy, these all sound great! Thanks for letting me know where to get 1 too!

I was hoping this was going to be related to prickly pear, which is one of my favorites and super underrated. I've never actually tried any dragon fruit, but you've inspired me to find one and try them out!

I've been growing these for years, refreshing.

Sounds like it tastes similar to my experience with prickly pear.

In San Diego dragon fruit does so well growing up the palm washingtonia, it acts as a great trellis the the aerial roots can cling into the palm where dirt and debris form and moisture is even collected during heavy rain. Peruvian apple cactus does so well, they never need water.

Okay, Jared _needs_ to plan a trip to the Andes. So many obscure fruits growing in extreme environments.

It’d be great to see some footage of the Peruvian cacti to compare to the dragonfruit cacti, even if it doesn’t grow like an epiphyte. I enjoy seeing the plants they come from, in addition to the fruits.

Mainly commenting to appease the almighty algorithm. I hope everyone is well and having a great day.

How did I not know the skin was edible?? Agh! These are so so good when they bust open "on the vine" so to speak. The dried texture is almost like marshmallow, sliminess goes down the riper they get and the floral notes go way up! My neighbor has big cactus and the flowers and fruit are so beautiful!

I have a Peruvian apple cactus in my backyard and it's over 12ft tall. The night cereus blooms are beautiful.

I have these cacti plants here in Florida and they can get tree sized. The fruits are best just before full ripen, because they with have more of a crisp, sort of fluffy texture. And all the flavor is still there

I am 1000% interested in growing this, thanks for the link!

Interesting. I never thought of it as a weird fruit. I added it to my garden last year, it's still small and hasn't produced fruit yet.

You should do an episode of on the Epic San Pedro cactus it also has a fruit that's pretty tasty but even better the mescaline

this fruit looks more familiar to the inside of a yellow dragon fruit except that the seeds are smaller. The yellow dragon fruit has the same "swirls" and jelly looking inside

Dragon fruit had an affair with some tart out there centuries ago.....

Its a fruit from the Cereus Genus, they are native from all of South America. Here in Paraguay we had the red pulp ones

Really neat. You taught me persimmon was food as well as tomotillo. It is so much fun watching you do your thing. I would love to see you revisit gak fruit. Would love to see you try to plant your seeds. Thanks for the show and happy season. Much love to you.

In Indonesia we normally wouldn't eat dragob fruit on it's own, but rather cube it and mix with other fruits. This enhances the flavour and is delicious.😊

There's another non-dragonfruit cactus in Peru: Corryocactus brevistylus, also known as sanky. It's a very tart fruit to the point you may actually use the pulp into "lemonade". We're talking about green lime's levels of tart.

Called kubo in Israel. The kubos available here -- in supermarkets, only occasionally -- tend to have a bit of a stronger flavor than the dragon fruit we find in supermarkets. I like them. Hadn't thought of eating the peel.

You actually found it awesome!

Saw a melon at the store yesterday I've never seen before, Limelon, apparantly a "new" type of melon, know anything about it?

Amazing, it reminds me of a cactus fruit I found this year, the plant is 15m tall even, but if you eat only the flesh it is almost tasteless, you need to eat the rind as well, and it has a soft acid that makes it taste very nice

Well hello another fun editing moment snuck in the video. Loved that. Thanks for another cool video!

Can you please go to tropical fruit world i promise it’s gonna be amazing it’s in Australia

I'm allergic to probably most fruits. So your channel is a good vicarious experience.

I think the sliminess comes from being overripe from my cactus pair experience

My great grandmother had one of these growing in her yard in Florida! It was taller than her house :) I never knew the fruits were edible, but it had so many fruits!

I have a few apple cactuses that I've been growing. They have not produced any fruit yet. I tried growing dragon fruit but its both too cold and too hot where I live. The apple cactus can tolerate a wider band of temps.

That is one delicious looking fruit. I have no clue if it truly is but that colour is great.

if you follow florida fruit geek he's collecting different varieties of this, and has realized they're very variable and some are much more flavorful than others. he just got a purple fleshed variety in his collection.

You should try saguaro fruit.

I got three Peruvian apple cacti growing in my room that I'm hoping I'll be able to get fruit from in a few years. They go outside in the warm part of the year and I put them in for the winter.

Only guy who'll casually compare something to the taste of melon rind.

I tried one recently and while I liked the texture I thought it had a palm-olive like taste.

Thanks!

I recently tried a little white fruit from a rhipsalis similar to the one at 0:55 - it was sweet, but had a gummy-mucilagey sort of texture not unlike the pulp of a yew berry. Bland, and with a few crunchy little seeds.

I wonder if the visual similarities are a form of biomimicry to entice similar fauna to spread the seeds.

Nice video! Definitely a good example of evolutionary convergence; those are always fascinating to check!

Super cool! We weren’t sold on the flavor until the end when you mentioned floral 🤩 that flavor seems to be kind of a rarity and I can’t get enough haha

So, a house near mine used to have a bunch of these cacti growing in front of it, and I'd always see the fruit and flowers, but was scared to try the fruit, as I didn't know if it was toxic or not. What I _did_ do was squash the inner flesh of a few of them into a bucket, then spun that bucket back and forth. This caused the flesh to take on a consistancy like the spray-in reinforcing foam you'd find at a hardware store.

The Peruvian apple cactus looks like a fruit that would be common in Ena’s world so…

Wow. Beautiful.

This is my favorite fruit. I eat them all the time in California

I've really wanted to try and grow these.

Its a bald dragon fruit

My dad grows dragon fruit up his fence. It works quite well. I remember my mind was blow when I discovered that dragonfruit cactus was a vine!

Yes but they taste better much the same. The dragon trailer in my mesquite tree, it also protects the cactus from the afternoon west sun of south Texas. My Peruvian stand tall in full sun, 20 ft tall. I've eaten 100s of both in the past 17 years. The amount of seeds makes the flesh texture mealy. I wonder if the fruit tastes different when it's grown in its native ground. A bird planted mine. I water it but that's all. The fruit has to ripen on the cactus like a peach. I eat them while I'm mowing the lawn. Only problem is the birds wait for them to ripen, you have be on your toes if you want. My Peruvian produces about 200 apple each time it blooms

Very fun opening, i enjoyed it!

YESSS IVE BEEN WANTING YOU TO REVIEW THIS FOR SO LONG!!!

I eat mabgo with the skin, usually when its just right ifs nice and chewy

looks cool and has a cool name 👍🏻

It's fun to think about reasons that they look so similar. I wonder if it's straight up mimicry. I can't find much/any info on what animals eat the fruit and disperse the seeds.

You uploaded this really early!

For future reference, the plural of genus is genera!

I’ve grown a Peruvian apple cactus for several years now. This year, I was so excited because it bloomed. I didn’t realize that the flower only lasts one night. It’s pollinated by bats. I tried to pollinate by hand but too late. Hopefully I will get fruit next year.

I wonder if there is some special advantage to that particular fruit dispersal design that would facilitate such a convergence. Like is there animal that would only eat the fruits from the plants it liked?

Another great job!

Have you tried Echinocereus triglochidiatus fruits ("Claret Cup")? they're like dragon fruit or peruvian apple cactus but tiny and way sweeter / more flavor

Makes me think of how certain varietals of orange can break apart into pips when you eat them.

Something about the shirt choice in this video really pleases me XP

It's perhaps the only time I've ever tried a fruit before you have Sir. XD

They are growing at my house. they seem to be better just as they crack open by themselves. The snow white ones are better flavor mouth feel and digestion. The translucent and a bit slimy interiors like this one not as good and mild laxative effect. I was excited to get anything i could but with time decided to only eat the bright white ones .There are many closely related varieties that i have not eat and different climate and soils In my limited experience the enjoyability of these versus dragon fruit could be described with a Venn diagram. On the left is not as tasty on the right is better taste. The Peruvian cactus apples i tasted are a circle on the left the dragon fruit on the right. in the middle the two circles over lap 60%.

@WeirdExplorer I have a cactus with a fruit on it. I think it's the same one as this one. But,I'm not to sure. It's def not a Dragon fruit but it's a almost red pinkish color fruit on my cactus. And it's not a Prickly Pear either.

What a very cool fruits you always have. your explanation is always very on point! But now the question is, which of the 2 fruits do you like best?

wasnt the apple more translucent because it was mushed? its how it looks to me, at the bottom is far more white and dense (2:13) idk i think someone dropped it

Best intro ever!!!

great review

I'm so happy you're using a better knife. The butter knife you used in older videos was not appropriate!

I can see these being grown in the uk an europe what with the heat we have been experiencing probably not spain tho,spain is so hot its on 🔥

Why are my lights flashing?!?🙂 Beautiful edits in the intro.

I love these there is a house that house 3 plants that are in a side ally walk though and they taste like cotton candy the

It literally looks like a pink mango. I was not expecting it to look like a dragon fruit on the inside. The pattern you were seeing, I’ve also came across with yellow dragon fruits.

So kind of like a fig texture but super mild?

Love the review! Great job as always!

Good job on the video Thank You.

You should try Firecracker cactus fruits!

Really interesting!

Just an FYI if you want to grow dragonfruit or any fruiting cactus you must have at least two genetically different plants because cacti are self sterile. For dragonfruit this means you need two different varieties that flower at the same time. You can save pollen in the refrigerator and hand pollinate to increase the yield.

Ah i think see look like mango pink, wow different types dragon fruit types. i love things fruit