Dragonfruit

歪比巴卜！

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He prefers to call himself Optimus Prime.

The official name of this plant is Dragonfruit. However, a literal translation can be found in its infobox. The official name is to be used on all pages that refer to this plant.

火龙果(translation: Pitaya)
Spits burning pulps, dealing a small amount of damage to the enemy.
Almanac statistics
Sun cost	150
Recharge	Sluggish
Damage	Moderate
Range	Lobbed
Weakness	(Immune to fire)
In-game statistics
In-game recharge	Fast
Direct damage	50 damage
Other weakness	(deflects projectiles) (blocks projectiles)
Rarity (China)	Rare
Unlocked	Collect 10 Dragonfruit Puzzle Pieces
Costumes
Chinese English 火龙果从小就很焦虑，因为他总想数清楚自己的果肉里有多少籽，它还很容易发怒，因为总有人怀疑他和黑芝麻有什么关系。后来他想通了，把难题全部抛出来，让僵尸们去头疼吧！ Dragonfruit grew up with anxiety, as he always wished to count how many seeds are there in his pulp. It's also easy for him to get upset, because there's always someone suspecting him to be somewhat related to sesame seeds. He later thought these through, throw out all problems, and let them become the zombies' headache instead!

Dragonfruit (火龙果; pinyin: huǒlóng guǒ) is a monthly special plant in the Chinese version of Plants vs. Zombies 2, and the monthly special plant for May 2016.

He attacks by lobbing balls of fire, damaging every zombie in an area around it. He can also thaw plants in Frostbite Caves.

Origins

Dragonfruit is based on the Pitaya, a fruit that grows on cacti which is also known as the dragon fruit.

Almanac entry

Note: Dragonfruit's in-game damage is Heavy and his recharge in-game is Fast.

火龙果 Dragonfruit	DAMAGE Moderate RANGE Lobbed RECHARGE Sluggish
	吐出燃烧的果实，对敌人造成少量伤害。 植物特征：红色植物、满腹怒火 火龙果从小就很焦虑，因为他总想数清楚自己的果肉里有多少籽，它还很容易发怒，因为总有人怀疑他和黑芝麻有什么关系。后来他想通了，把难题全部抛出来，让僵尸们去头疼吧！

火龙果 (Dragonfruit)
Sun cost: 150

DAMAGE: Moderate
RANGE: Lobbed
RECHARGE: Sluggish

吐出燃烧的果实，对敌人造成少量伤害。

植物特征：红色植物、满腹怒火
火龙果从小就很焦虑，因为他总想数清楚自己的果肉里有多少籽，它还很容易发怒，因为总有人怀疑他和黑芝麻有什么关系。后来他想通了，把难题全部抛出来，让僵尸们去头疼吧！

English: Spits burning pulp, dealing a small amount of damage to the enemies. Plant feature: Red plant, full of anger Dragonfruit grew up with anxiety, as he always wished to count how many seeds are there in his pulp. It's also easy for him to get upset, because there's always someone suspecting him to be somewhat related to sesame seeds. He later thought these through, throw out all problems, and let them become the zombies' headache instead!

Upgrades

Plant Food effect

When given Plant Food, Dragonfruit spits a large fireball that rolls through the lane.

Costumed

The fireball now leaves a fire trail that lasts for few seconds.

Level upgrade

Level	Upgrades	Description
	Blue Flame of Anger 蓝色怒火	Dragonfruit has a 50% chance to shoot a napalm ball that deals twice as much damage to zombies.
	Combat Training 战斗训练	Dragonfruit gains 50% more attack power and health (150% of initial).
	Rage 怒不可遏	Dragonfruit shoots faster.
	Cell Activation 细胞活化	Dragonfruit gains another 50% more attack power and health (200% of initial).
	Ability Awaken 能力觉醒	Dragonfruit may be boosted when planted.
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Dragonfruit gains another 50% more attack power and health (250% of initial).
	Purple Flame of Anger 紫色怒火	Normal attack and Plant Food effect becomes purple fire, increasing damage.
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Dragonfruit gains another 50% more attack power and health (300% of initial).

Strategies

Dragonfruit can be used in Frostbite Caves as a cheaper version of Pepper-pult who costs 50 more suns, especially at level 5, it can also be used outside of Frostbite Caves as a better version of Pyro-shroom, as he can attack with lobbed projectiles and in a 3x3 area, another thing about Dragonfruit is that he is less rare than Pyro-shroom and can be used as a good offensive fire plant

Gallery

HD Dragonfruit

Dragonfruit's locked seed slot

Dragonfruit in the plant demonstrator

Dragonfruit with costume plant demonstrator

Dragonfruit's Almanac entry

Dragonfruit launching a fireball (leveled up)

The fireball (leveled up)

Dragonfruit about to launch the large fireball (leveled up)

Dragonfruit launching the large fireball (leveled up)

Dragonfruit about to kick the fireball (leveled up)

Part of Dragonfruit's spinning animation

The large fireball (leveled up)

Plants vs. Zombies 2 - New 2016 Plant - Pitaya

Puzzle Piece

Costume Puzzle Piece

Textures

Seed packet without sun cost

Grayed-out Dragonfruit

Old

Seed packet

Puzzle Piece

Miscellaneous

Dragonfruit plush

Trivia

• He is the first Chinese-exclusive plant that can thaw plants. The second is Firebloom Queen and the third is Match Flower.
• His projectile's splashing sound attack reuses Pepper-pult's splash sound.
  • This was fixed in version 2.0.0 with a new sound effect.

The pepper silhouettes appear when hit a zombie

• If the player looks closely at the splash when his projectile hits a zombie, the player can see the pepper silhouettes, similarly to Pepper-pult's.
• This is the first plant in the series to be based off of a dragon fruit, the second one being Dark Matter Dragonfruit.
  • This makes him the only plant in a main series game to be based off of a dragon fruit.