Dragon fruit tree - a specialty vegetable with a special name that not everyone knows. Join Raucuquachaua to find out right away about this famous specialty of the Central region!
Dragon fruit tree is considered a nutritious food, considered as a specialty in the Central region of our country, which can be processed into many delicious dishes. Let's learn about dragon tongue in the following article.
What is a dragon tree?
Dragon tongue tree, also known as dragon tongue tree, is a tree distributed in tropical areas, especially South Africa, in our country, this species is widely distributed in the Central region, especially in Quang Nam province. Quang Ngai, Binh Dinh, Phu Yen. Dragon tongue belongs to the type of cactus that lives in the bush, has many spines that are not hard and sharp, and the trunk is succulent due to living and adapting to harsh conditions.
Long tongue is a hermaphroditic plant, mature trees up to 5m tall. The trunk has many branches and the branches are oval like rabbit ears, so it is called rabbit ear cactus. Dragon fruit tree has white, red, and yellow flowers, flowers when mature and flowers will be available from mid-May, to August will begin to bear fruit.
The young leaves of the dragon's tongue are green with banana buds, used to cook soup, the taste is sour, and when cooked, it is slightly soft and chewy. A special feature of this plant is that when picked in the morning, the dragon's tongue will have a more sour taste than in the afternoon. The dragon fruit tree is used by people to prepare many attractive dishes. Not only has a delicious taste, dragon fruit also contains a large amount of phenolic and flavonoid active ingredients that help repel cancer cells for the body, supporting the prevention of cardiovascular disease.
Price of dragon tongue
The leaves are sold at markets or e-commerce platforms such as Shopee and Lazada with prices ranging from 40,000 to 50,000 VND/kg.
