Nature Note 2022 (7)

[anna_wing]

All three dragonfruit (mine are supposed to be Hylocerus costaricencis the shocking-pink skinned with dark-pink-fleshed species) are now budding! The first two flowers I mentioned in the previous post finally bloomed gorgeously one night and the fruit set successfully (this species self-pollinates, apparently).

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hylocerus+costaricencis+flowers&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images

The smell is strong but rather unpleasant, unfortunately, and the flowers only last one night, but they are incredibly beautiful. Like arboreal waterlilies.


We are buying dried rice sheaves from the market and hanging them from a light bamboo frame, and all manner of small seed-eating birds have shown up. Munias, sparrows, various finch/thrush/bulbul-type things.

Comments

[anna_wing]

One way would be to get the seeds from a sweet one and try germinating them.