Pitajaya
hort. ex Wittst. (1856)
Etymology
🌵 Author(s) | Georg Christian Wittstein |
🌵 Type | not cited |
Spanish (from Taíno?) pitajaya ‘dragon fruit (the fruit of several cactus species, mainly Hylocereus)’. Perhaps based on Cactus pitajaya = Cereus fernambucensis.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Feb 05). Pitajaya. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/pitajaya