If those are Cebra, and its your first time with them, be aware that they are amongst the deepest red of the dragonfruit varieties. The color is so strong that it can sometimes pass through your digestive tract and bladder intact, if you eat a large enough quantity of it, and might lead to a bit of a colorful surprise the next morning in the bathroom. Its not harmful, but it is can be a bit of a shock if you're unaware. My goddaughter called me up the morning after eating 2 whole fruit from my house thinking she was having some sort of allergic reaction. Was a lot funnier to me than it was to her.
I just wanted to point this out, in the event you didn't know. Also, as a side note, Cebra does make a very nice natural food coloring for things like cookies or cakes, and could even possibly be distilled into a purer form for log term storage for that use. It's SUPER red
The person I got the cutting from said it was Cebra, and Rob your description is dead on about the "effects".
We got 2 fruit last year (first time) and other than the fact that it looks cool with the fins curling back, when we cut it open both kind of amazed at how red it was. I remarked that of all the purple/magenta ones this was the only one to stain fingers and such. The grand baby was just over a year old at the time, and she loves DF (actually loves almost every type of fruit). She would eat as much as you would give her. She probably got a little less than a quarter of one and I got the call from Nana the next morning at work saying that I needed to go online and see if DF has any effect on urine color. Guess the diaper was colorful that morning. Good thing Nana is a nurse and figured out what was going on, if mom saw it it would have been an event, probably involving calls to 911, poison control, a trip to the ER and general freaking out on her part. As it is, certain fruits (DF, cherries, kiwi and a few others) seem to cause the grand baby to have a reaction and she gets a rash from the wet diaper. So until she gets potty trained no more DF for her.
The cebra photo reminded me about this picture from ebay? listing says "you will receive 1 plant! This variety is Cosmic Blue with Big Blue Blooms!"
Nothing photo shopped in my photo. The fruit is neater looking earlier while the tips of the fins are still bright green. To me it is almost like it sparkles or something, much different than any others that I have.
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