Hey, what's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast.

Kevin here. Today we're going to talk about an underrated

cactus that I think you may want to add to your garden

if you want an ornamental plant that's water-wise but also has an edible

fruit. So this would be Serreas Peruvianus also known as the Peruvian apple

cactus and as you can tell by the name that suggests that there is an edible fruit that's produced.

So it's a fantastic plant, it's one that I've seen quite a bit around here.

It is a zone 8 to 11-ish plant, so I would say could you push the zone and grow it in a lower zone

you probably could if you use some tips from the

podcasts we did with David the Good who's really good at hacking the zone

and maybe getting a zone 6 to a zone 7B,

right, using some of those techniques.

So I highly encourage you to go check those episodes out

if you'd like to know how to do that or he also has a book on it I think.

But the apple cactus, it's a wonderful wonderful plant. It's native to South America as the name might suggest if you are paying attention to your geography.

And it is known for its truly epic height.

So the gray to green bluish stems have reached

over 30 feet in height without any help from us gardeners.

However, in intensive cultivation using plant supports,

they've gotten this plant to grow over 110 feet tall.

So absolutely crazy amount of growth, but it's not going to grow that much in your

garden. So don't worry, it's not going to take over your entire home. So it

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