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5421.000 Pereskia
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 taxon. |
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Other sources of information about Pereskia:
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Flora of Mozambique: PereskiaFlora of Mozambique: cultivated Pereskia
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Pereskia
External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): PereskiaBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Pereskia
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Pereskia
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Pereskia
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iNaturalist: Pereskia
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Pereskia
JSTOR Plant Science: Pereskia
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Pereskia
Plants of the World Online: Pereskia
Tropicos: Pereskia
Wikipedia: Pereskia
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