Halleys Comet Dragon Fruit

Halleys Comet Dragon Fruit is a hybrid variety that comes from Selenicereus Undatus and Selenicereus Guatemalensis. The incredibly large fruit is slightly more rounded than the Physical Graffiti, and the fins are more abbreviated. In all other respects they are nearly identical.

Produces Pink-fleshed fruit with excellent flavor, closely related to Physical Graffiti, but not as vigorous or productive.

• Origin: Paul Thomson, San Diego, CA early 1980's. 

• Fruit: round; large, 482 g; flesh hot pink, seeds small; rind bright red, relatively thin, with an intermediate number of bracts; quality very good; 16.7 Brix; rated high in sensory evaluations; 38 days from bloom to harvest in Southern California; harvest July through December. 

• Plant: stems intermediate in thickness, with 3 well defined ridges; stems relatively straight when mature, dark green; areoles have 1-3 spines, 2-4 mm long; segment between areoles convex, 53.6 mm long; flowers intermediate, petals white, calyx yellowish green, anthers and stigma lobes yellow.

• Tolerance to cold and heat good; grows well in full sun; commercial potential good.