Variety Spotlights

Expert guides on dragon fruit varieties, growing tips, and plant care from our farm in Southern California.

San Ignacio Dragon Fruit: Taste, Pollination & Growing

San Ignacio offers bold red flesh but disputed pollination. We do not stock it. Try our reliable Robles Red instead.

Delight dragon fruit offers sweet pink flesh and reliable sets. Learn about its naming confusion and pollination needs.

Bruni dragon fruit pairs 21-22 brix sugar with a rare rosy floral note, on a small white-fleshed fruit from Eckhard Meier's breeding program.

Sin Espinas has sweet cherry-raspberry flavor and firm red flesh. We recommend Purple Haze as a reliable alternative.

Townsend Red does not exist. You likely want Townsend Pink. Learn the facts and find the best red-fleshed alternatives for your garden.

Makisupa is a heavy-producing red-fleshed hybrid. It offers deep magenta flesh with a sweet-tart raspberry and kiwi flavor.

Connie Mayer offers sweet coconut flavor but needs a pollinator. We stock American Beauty cuttings for reliable fruit set.

Bloody Mary is a rare red dragon fruit. Sky Botanicals offers Robles Red as a reliable, high-performing alternative for growers.

Orejona is a spiny Nicaraguan red pitaya. We recommend the easier-to-handle Robles Red instead.

Grow self-fertile Natural Mystic dragon fruit. Enjoy dark magenta flesh, watermelon flavor, and reliable harvests from a single plant.

Zamorano offers sweet crimson flesh but grows slowly. We do not stock it. Try Sugar Dragon for similar red fruit and reliable performance.

Red Jaina offers deep crimson flesh and strawberry notes. We do not stock it, but Robles Red is a great alternative.