Researchers are developing novel and specialty crops, such as blueberries, pitaya, jujube, and caper.
Various fruits grow in the area such as avocado, guava, soursop, sapodilla, pitaya, cocoanut, orange, tangerine, pomegranate, lime, lemon, mamey, sapodilla, tamarind, banana and plum.
Pitaya flowers bloom overnight and usually wilt by the morning.
There are various common names such as strawberry cactus, porcupine hedgehog cactus, straw-color hedgehog, and pitaya.
Pitaya, pears, mangoes, avocado, lemon and plum grow in the area.
The tree species include chicle, pitaya, cascarilla, and many others.
Fruit trees that grow in the area are sapodilla, mango, pitaya, apricots and plums.
Pitaya cacti usually germinate between 11 and 14 days after shallow planting.
