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Commodity Guide Page
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| Pitaya/Pitahaya |
Acanthocereus spp., Cereus spp., Echinocereus spp., Escontria spp., Stenocereus spp., Myrtillocactus spp. |
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| Approved Name: |
Pitaya/Pitahaya |
| Scientific Name(s): |
Acanthocereus spp., Cereus spp., Echinocereus spp., Escontria spp., Stenocereus spp., Myrtillocactus spp. |
| Common Name(s): |
pitahaya, pitaya |
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| Description: |
Belongs to: Echinocereus spp. (Echinocereus ferreirianus subsp. lindsayi and Echinocereus schmollii fruit are protected under CITES Appendix I)
Description:
The fruits in these genus groups are wild grown and retain the characteristically thin, splitting skins indicating a short shelf life and decreases likelihood of export. The species S. gueretaroensis is cultivated in the Guadalajara region of Mexico, useing stem cuttings planted on rocky slopes. Several varietal selections have been made, all of which produce globose to ovoid fruit, 6 to 8 cm long (Pimienta-Barrios, Eulogio, and Park S. Nobel. "Pitahaya (Stenocereus spp., Cactaceae): An Ancient and Modern Fruit Crop of Mexico." Economic Botany 48, no. 1 (1994): 76-83. Accessed September 2, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4255574. Plants from cutting of S. fricii may also be found near Guadalajara under cultivation for fruit. Contrarily, fruit from S. stellatus (fruit ~5 cm) and S. griseus (fruit ~10 cm) are collected from natural populations under silviculture (Id.). The massive S. thurberi exists only in the wild. |
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No Seasonal Information available |
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