absolutely AWESOME plant. B-)

okay for something really cool my mom and I have finally figured out what the 10+ year old plant that's on my grandma's property is. (it was cut from a 30+ year old plant at the time from next door)

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anyway I was on a nursery website to look up plants and stuff and I saw a plant name that I had seen on a discovery channel show (I got really interested in the fruit after seeing the episode) and when I clicked on the link pics of what could be a doppleganger to my grandma's plant came up.

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the fruit is called a "Dragonfruit" and makes somewhat scaly looking fruit. anyway the fruit is a bit sweet (scale of sweetness depends on the kind of plant that was bred) and it has crunchy seeds and I really want to try one.

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when my mom and I were talking to my grandma about it and showed her some pics she thought it was the plant too. she once previously had seen some of the fruit but didn't know what it was.

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turns out the fruit develops from the old and shriveling flowers (the plant has absolutely gorgeous blooms) but the dead flowers had always previously been removed so that's probably why we've never really seen the fruit before.

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so now that my grandma knows about the fruit she's gonna leave the next batch of flowers on the plant so that we can maybe see if we can get fruit.

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here are some of the main links I've found for dragonfruit. it's really cool.
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ton of pics and info about dragonfruit

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how to eat (and prepare) dragonfruit
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interesting pics of dragonfruit. (bottom pic shows different varieties and looks awesome)
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shows some history of dragonfruit
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instructions on how to dry dragonfruit to make an awesome snack

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ton of different breeds of dragonfruit(have heard that American Beauty and Physical Graffiti are really good breeds.){they even have a David Bowie breed....*snickers*}

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*David Bowie Breed pictured below*