Germinating and growing time-lapse of a pitahaya cactus from a store-bought dragon fruit. We first extracted dragon fruit's ...

Discovering how wonderful a dragon fruit and pitahaya cactus look like under a microscope.

The mango did it. The Meyer lemon did it. Over the years, many fruits have crossed the barrier from exotic rarity to become available to all of us. First prized by immigrants or backyard hobbyists, ...

Imagine a cactus that grows rapidly in ordinary garden soil and whose luscious fruit sells at the supermarket for $4.99 per pound. Would you want to try to grow that cactus? I recently wrote about ...

If you ever wondered what those strange red, prickly-looking, expensive orbs in the produce section tasted like, you can indulge in the sweetness of the pitahaya - also known as dragon fruit - during ...

L.A. gardeners have been going native for more than a century. Around 1900, nurseryman and plant sleuth Theodore Payne pushed for West Coast flowers and shrubs. His word was gospel: “Be a good ...