Fruitful season - Dragonfruits

I believe you guys have seen red dragonfruits in the stalls and supermarkets. The latest craze fruit. Did you like it? I didn't. I was always wondering why are these not-so-tasty fruits fetching so good prices.

Anyway, have you seen yellow-coloured ones? How about the dragonfruit plant itself?

Friends and I visited a dragonfruit farm sometime last week. A nice little place atop a hill near Keningau. The view up the hill was really amazing. Will post them up later.


Well, here they are, the yellow hand-grenades. Actually, those fruits were covered with long and sharp thorns. What you're seeing is after the thorns have been shaved off.

Not just the fruits, but the whole plant (which closely resembles a cactus plant) is thorny. So you can imagine, tending to and harvesting those plants is a very ouch-ing chore.

Here are the flowers. Real beauties. They bloom early in the morning. By the time we arrived in the evening, the flowers were already closed and wilted.

Now, does anybody knows where did the "dragon" name come from?

Hmmm... maybe the flowers looked like power-balls in Dragonball?