Also known as the Dragon Fruit, the Pitaya is a stunningly beautiful fruit with an intense colour and shape, magnificent flowers and a delicious taste. The fruit, apart from being refreshing and tasty, contains a lot of water and minerals with many different nutrition ingredients. It tastes light sweet and it's good for liver, laxative, supplementing fiber and very suitable for diet. Besides, dragon fruit is also good for person who has a high blood pressure. According to popular experience, obese person who has eaten dragon fruit regularly can reduce his/her weight naturally and have a beautiful balanced body but it does not influence on his/her health. Moreover, eating this fruit can stop and reduce diabetes. Hence, dragon fruit is a favorite fruit of many people especially Asian people.
The dragon fruit tree. Looks like a cactus tree.
The Flower of the Dragon Fruit. The smell of the flower is sweet (like jasmine)
The tentacles or the tongue inside of the dragon fruit flower. 
Insects were found inside of the flower. The sweet smell attracts the insects I reckoned. 
The back of the flower, you can see the fruit taking it's shape.
After a a week or two the flower dried out and give way for the fruit to grow. 
The effects after eating dragon fruit...your tongue & teeth will become red...don't worry it's only temporary once you gargled with water it will be gone.
(picture of my nephew Niels, he loves to eat the dragon fruit)
