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5401.000 Cereus
Staples, G.W. & Herbst, D.R. (2005) A Tropical Garden Flora; plants cultivated in the Hawaiian islands and other tropical places. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Description of the genus
Shrubby or tree-like, erect, often columnar; stems usually much branched, strongly ribbed, often glaucous. Flowers nocturnal, mostly large, funnel-shaped, usually white. Fruit ovoid, fleshy, usually red, capped by persistent style; when ripe splitting along 1-3 sides, pulp white. Seeds black. Worldwide: The estimated number of species varies from 10 to 50; some species are now placed in Selenicereus or Hylocereus. Native from the West Indies to Argentina. Zimbabwe: 1 taxon. |
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Links to taxa: View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus
| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| jamacaru DC. | S (other?) | Description, Image |
Other sources of information about Cereus:
Our websites:
Flora of Botswana: CereusFlora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Cereus
External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): CereusBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Cereus
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Cereus
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Cereus
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Cereus
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Cereus
JSTOR Plant Science: Cereus
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Cereus
Plants of the World Online: Cereus
Tropicos: Cereus
Wikipedia: Cereus
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