5421.000 Pereskia Mill.

Bailey, L.H. (1949) Manual of Cultivated Plants Revised edition. Macmillan, New York.

Description of the genus

Shrub or liane (in ours), not typically cactus-like in appearance. Spines neither sheathed nor barbed, in large clusters on the old wood, in curved pairs on younger branches; glochids 0. Stems leafy and branched. Leaves alternate, fleshy, broad and flat. Flowers stalked, showy (in ours) in corymbs or panicles. Fruit yellow. Seeds black.

Derivation of name: Named after Nicolas Claude Fabry de Peirese (1580 - 1637)

Worldwide: 16 species in tropical America (Caribbean and SE tropical S America)

Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon.

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aculeata Mill.	Description, Image

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