Cucurbita maxima

Cucurbita maxima

Cucurbita moschata

Cucurbita pepo

Cucurbita maxima

Cucurbita maxima

Cucurbita pepo

Cucurbita pepo

Cucurbita maxima x C. moschata

Cucurbita moschata

These red, orange, and yellow fire flowers have a sweet and mild yet peppery spice. Both the flowers and the adorable round leaves are edible and delicious, and the unripe seed pods can be pickled into a peppery caper-like garnish.

These incredible fruits are like the mango of the temperate world. Fruits can be quite astringent until fully ripened, but once ripe their sugar content goes through the roof! Delicious fresh, delicious slow-cured and candied.

Pereskia bleo

Also known as Wax Rose, this is a unique leafy cactus plant that produces an edible fruit that resembles a rose. The fruit has a sour flavor much like a lemon with the crunchy, juicy texture of star fruit (carambola). —Photo from Urban Tropicals

Pereskia aculeata

Also known as Lemon Vine, Uña de Gato, and many other names, this unique leafy cactus plant is even more unique in that both leaves and spikes stick straight out of the small fruits! It ripens from acidic to slightly sweet with both fruity and more savory vegetable tones, like a tomato-carrot-peach kind of flavor. —Photo from @zeezbloomz

Opuntia ficus-indica

Adorned on the Mexican flag, nopales are the key ingredient to many rich, delicious dishes and grow throughout the Americas. Both raw and cooked, nopales are juicy with a mildly sweet flavor and are commonly used to make incredible salsas and savory dishes.

Cereus repandus

This cactus fruit sets itself apart from all others with a columnar growth habit as smooth, spike-free varieties. Like a dragon fruit but on the sweeter side, they have the refreshing texture of a kiwi but without the acidity, with pleasantly crunchy little black seeds and a mild sweet flavor. —Photo from @neelylab8

Hylocereous undatus

This incredible refreshing fruit is like biting into a giant kiwi without any of the acidity, but with the same juicy texture and pleasantly crunchy little black seeds. Flavor ranges from mildly sweet to sweeter, and fruits range from smooth to spiked. The growth form of the plants is a vining type epiphyte cactus that grows up trees.