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These fruits are commonly known in English as "dragon fruit", a name used since 1963, apparently resulting from the leather-like skin and prominent scaly spikes on the fruit exterior. [4] The fruit is often designated as "Vietnamese dragon fruit" as Vietnam is the lead exporter. [5] The fruit may also be known as a strawberry pear. [2] [6]
Dragonfruit stems are scandent (climbing habit), creeping, sprawling or clambering, and branch profusely. There can be four to seven of them, between 5 and 10 m (16 and 33 ft)or longer, with joints from 30 to 120 cm (12 to 47 in) or longer, and 10 to 12 cm (3.9 to 4.7 in) thick; with generally three ribs; margins are corneous (horn-like) with age, and undulate.
The species is grown commercially for its yellow fruit, but is also an impressive ornamental climbing vine with perhaps the largest flowers of all cacti. The yellow skinned fruit of S. megalanthus has thorns, unlike the green, red or yellow skinned dragon fruits of S. undatus, S. monacanthus and their cultivated hybrids.
Selenicereus monacanthus, formerly Hylocereus monacanthus. Hylocereus is a former genus of epiphytic cacti, often referred to as night-blooming cactus (though the term is also used for many other cacti).
Dimocarpus longan, commonly known as the longan (/ ˈ l ɒ ŋ ɑː n /) and dragon's eye, is a tropical tree species that produces edible fruit. [3] It is one of the better-known tropical members of the soapberry family Sapindaceae , to which the lychee and rambutan also belong. [ 3 ]
Onaga or the Dragon King, a Mortal Kombat character; Dragon king, a playing piece in Shogi. Ryūō ('Dragon King'), an annual Japanese professional shogi tournament and the title of its winner; Dragon King: The Fighting Game, the working title of the original prototype for the 1999 fighting game Super Smash Bros.
Kulipari is an animated television series created by Trevor Pryce for Netflix.It is co-produced by Splash Entertainment, The Outlook Company and Telegael Teoranta.Its first season, subtitled An Army of Frogs, was released in September 2016.
King.com Limited is a Swedish video game developer and publisher that specialises in social games. Since 2016, it is one of 3 publishing businesses of Activision Blizzard. Headquartered in Stockholm and London, [1] and incorporated in St. Julian's, Malta, [2] King rose to prominence after releasing the cross-platform title Candy Crush Saga in 2012.