Fruiting cacti

jeanfreau · Post by **jeanfreau** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 1:30 pm

What cacti are the best at producing large, juicy, sweet, edible fruits? ....Suitable for cultivating in a very arid environment. Thanks for replies!

Post by **CoronaCactus** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 5:51 pm

Opuntia's like the dry desert and produce large fruit, as with many Cylindropuntia's. Cholla (as well as other) fruit has a history among many native tribes in the USA. You can even purchase cholla fruit and recipes from TOCA.
http://www.tocaonline.org/homepage.html

Post by **daiv** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:52 pm

In addition to the ones Darryl said, a "Cereus peruvianus" would be ideal as well. Nice large cactus "apples" and a very easy plant to grow.

Loph · Post by **Loph** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 4:30 am

perhaps some other larger columnar cacti? trichocereus sp? not sure how their fruit tastes though.

i was going to say dragon fruit, until i read "arid"...

stephen.prout@uk · Post by **stephen.prout@uk** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 7:41 pm

tricocereus/ echinopsis isnt reall nurishing little stringy bits of white fruit fleash attached to lots and lots of seed so there a bit to seedy to eat plus you get the ceph from the outside in yr gob.

tumamoc · Post by **tumamoc** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 10:08 pm

A couple of nice Peniocereus' will give you some delicious fruit. Though, probably about a 5-10 year wait.