American Beauty

American Beauty is a red-to-pink-fleshed dragon fruit cultivar of American origin that specialist Indian nurseries sell for its bright magenta flesh and good, balanced eating quality. It is grown mostly in mixed-cultivar blocks in Maharashtra, Karnataka and Gujarat, where it adds flesh-colour variety and helps with cross-pollination of other red clones. Like the other coloured-flesh types it sets best with a pollen partner nearby, and it rewards the same free-draining soil, pole trellis and steady drip that the rest of the crop needs.

Plant typeRooted stem cutting (red-flesh cultivar)
MaturityBears from year 1–2; fruiting flushes June–November
Yield potentialGood, with reliable fruit quality
Disease resistanceNo special resistance widely documented
SoilAll soils
SeasonAll seasons

• Spacing2 m × 2 m to 3 m × 3 m between poles, 3–4 cuttings per pole

Actual yield depends on sowing time, soil, irrigation, weather, seed quality and crop management.

• Maharashtra
• Karnataka
• Gujarat

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• Vietnam Red

  A popular red-fleshed selection of Vietnamese origin, widely multiplied and sold by Indian nurseries, valued for reliable cropping and good red flesh colour. Best cropped with a compatible pollinator nearby.

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• Moroccan Red

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• Thai White (White Flesh)

  The classic white-fleshed, pink-skinned type (Hylocereus undatus), generally self-fertile and the most forgiving choice for a first planting. Milder and less intensely sweet than the red types, and usually a lower market price.

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• Palora (Yellow)

  A yellow-skinned, white-fleshed type (Selenicereus megalanthus, the Ecuadorian "Palora"), the sweetest of the common types and a slow, premium niche crop in India — later-maturing, smaller-fruited and more demanding than the pink-skinned types.

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