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Selenicereus
''Selenicereus'', sometimes known as moonlight cactus, is a genus of Epiphyte, epiphytic, Lithophyte, lithophytic, and terrestrial cactus, cacti, found in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and northern South America. The term night-blooming cereus is also sometimes used, but this is also used for many night-blooming cacti, including ''Epiphyllum'' and ''Peniocereus''. In 2017, the genus ''Hylocereus'' was brought into Synonym (taxonomy), synonymy with ''Selenicereus''. A number of species of ''Selenicereus'' produce fruit that is eaten. The fruit, known as ''pitaya'' or ''pitahaya'' in Spanish or as dragon fruit, may be collected from the wild or the plants may be cultivated. Description Clambering plants with flat to angled stems, producing aerial roots. Areoles may be with or without spines. Flowers are large and nocturnal, pollinated by moths or rarely bats. The receptacle bears small bracts, hairs and usually spines. Fruits bear numerous spines. Flowers are generally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selenicereus Atropilosus
''Selenicereus'', sometimes known as moonlight cactus, is a genus of epiphytic, lithophytic, and terrestrial cacti, found in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and northern South America. The term night-blooming cereus is also sometimes used, but this is also used for many night-blooming cacti, including '' Epiphyllum'' and '' Peniocereus''. In 2017, the genus ''Hylocereus'' was brought into synonymy with ''Selenicereus''. A number of species of ''Selenicereus'' produce fruit that is eaten. The fruit, known as ''pitaya'' or ''pitahaya'' in Spanish or as dragon fruit, may be collected from the wild or the plants may be cultivated. Description Clambering plants with flat to angled stems, producing aerial roots. Areoles may be with or without spines. Flowers are large and nocturnal, pollinated by moths or rarely bats. The receptacle bears small bracts, hairs and usually spines. Fruits bear numerous spines. Flowers are generally produced in abundance with mature plants and ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hylocereeae
The Hylocereeae are a tribe of cacti. Most are found in the tropical forests of Central and northern South America, and are climbers or epiphytes, unlike most cacti. The tribe includes between six and eight genera in different circumscriptions. The plants known as "epiphyllum hybrids" or "epiphyllums", widely grown for their flowers, are hybrids of species within this tribe, particularly '' Disocactus'', ''Pseudorhipsalis'' and '' Selenicereus'', less often '' Epiphyllum'', in spite of the common name. Description The members of the tribe are very variable in their morphology, especially when the terrestrial ''Acanthocereus'' is included. Many species form aerial roots. The hylocereoid clade (''Selenicereus'', ''Weberocereus'' and probably ''Aporocactus'') are mostly climbing or epiphytic, and have spiny ribbed stems. The phyllocactoid clade (''Epiphyllum'', ''Disocactus'', ''Kimnachia'' and ''Pseudorhipsalis'') are mainly epiphytic, and have spineless flattened leaf-like ste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selenicereus Anthonyanus
''Selenicereus anthonyanus'' (also known by its obsolete name, ''Cryptocereus anthonyanus'') is a cactus species native to southern Mexico. It is grown as an ornamental because of its nocturnal flowers and unusual, leaf-like stems. Common names include fishbone cactus, rickrack cactus, zig-zag cactus and St. Anthony's rickrack, and is sometimes referred to as an orchid cactus. Description The stems of the plant are ascending or climbing. Its branches are in clusters at intervals along the stem, to 1 m long or more, 7–15 cm wide, flat with few aerial roots; the lobes are 25–45 mm long and 10–16 mm wide, somewhat tapered towards the rounded apex; areoles are small; epidermis is green to yellowish green, smooth. The edges are deeply lobed. The fragrant flowers are 10 to 12 centimeters long and 15 to 17 centimeters in diameter. The outer bracts are purple and spread out until they are bent back. The inner bracts are ascending, cream-colored and yellow towards the flower throat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selenicereus Spinulosus
''Selenicereus spinulosus'' is a cactus species native to eastern Mexico and, possibly, the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas in the United States. Common names include vine-like moonlight cactus and spiny moon cereus. Its specific name, ''spinulosus'', means "with small spines" in Latin. History This was the third species of ''Selenicereus'' to be discovered. It was originally collected by Thomas Coulter in 1827, in Mexico, but no locality is known. Pyramus de Candolle received the plant in Paris and described it without knowing its flowers. He later sent cuttings to Berlin where it flowered the first time in 1842. Range and habitat This species is found in eastern Mexico from Tamaulipas to Chiapas. Other sources claim that this species can be found in the states of Texas, Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas. Plants were collected from the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas in the United States, but this population may have been extirpated as it has not been seen outside of cult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pitaya
Pitaya () or pitahaya () (common names strawberry pear or dragon fruit) is the fruit of several cactus species indigenous to the region of southern Mexico and along the Pacific coasts of Guatemala, Costa Rica, and El Salvador. Pitaya is cultivated in East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, the United States, the Caribbean, Australia, Brazil, and throughout tropical and subtropical regions of the world. ''Pitaya'' usually refers to fruit of the genus ''Stenocereus'', while ''pitahaya'' or ''dragon fruit'' refers to fruit of the genus '' Selenicereus'' (formerly ''Hylocereus''), both in the family Cactaceae. The common name in English derives from the leather-like skin and scaly spikes on the fruit exterior, resembling dragon skin. Depending on the variety, pitaya fruits may have sweet- or sour-tasting flesh that can be red, white, or yellow in color. Vernacular names These fruits are commonly known in English as strawberry pear or dragon fruit, a name used since 1963, appare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night-blooming Cereus
Night-blooming cereus is the common name referring to many flowering ceroid cacti that bloom at night. The flowers are short lived, and some of these species, such as ''Selenicereus grandiflorus'', bloom only once a year, for a single night, though most put out multiple flowers over several weeks, each of which opens for only a single night. Other names for one or more cacti with this habit are princess of the night, Honolulu queen (for '' Hylocereus undatus''), Christ in the manger, dama de noche, and queen of the night (which is also used for an unrelated plant species). Genera and species While many cacti referred to as night-blooming cereus belong to the tribe Cereeae, other night-blooming cacti in the subfamily Cactoideae may also be called night-blooming cereus. Cacti which may be called by this name include: * '' Cereus'' * ''Echinopsis'' (usually ''Echinopsis pachanoi'', San Pedro cactus) * '' Epiphyllum'' (usually ''Epiphyllum oxypetalum'', gooseneck cactus; grown ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weberocereus
''Weberocereus'' is genus of cacti. It produces a green and white flower and is found mainly in Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Description The species of the genus ''Weberocereus'' grows climbing or hanging, epiphytic or lithophytic. Their shoots, which are round in cross-section, are angular or flattened. The 2 to 5 ribs have lobed or toothed margins on which are small, sparsely spined areoles. The spines are short and bristly or sometimes absent at all. The bell-shaped to short funnel-shaped flowers that arise on the side of the shoots are mottled pink to yellowish white to green and 3 to 10 centimeters long. They open at night. The areoles on the pericarp and the flower tube are covered with bristly or hairy spines. The spherical to oblong, fleshy, often bumpy fruits are red or yellow and bristly or glabrous. They contain white or purple flesh. The remainder of the flowers is perennial. The medium-sized, black-brown to black, slightly shiny seeds are oval and almost smooth. They ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cactus
A cactus (: cacti, cactuses, or less commonly, cactus) is a member of the plant family Cactaceae (), a family of the order Caryophyllales comprising about 127 genera with some 1,750 known species. The word ''cactus'' derives, through Latin, from the Ancient Greek word (''káktos''), a name originally used by Theophrastus for a spiny plant whose identity is now not certain. Cacti occur in a wide range of shapes and sizes. They are native to the Americas, ranging from Patagonia in the south to parts of western Canada in the north, with the exception of ''Rhipsalis baccifera'', which is also found in Africa and Sri Lanka. Cacti are adapted to live in very dry environments, including the Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on Earth. Because of this, cacti show many adaptations to conserve water. For example, almost all cacti are succulents, meaning they have thickened, fleshy parts adapted to store water. Unlike many other succulents, the stem is the only part of most cacti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epiphyllum
''Epiphyllum'' (; "upon the leaf" in Greek) is a genus of epiphytic plants in the cactus family (Cactaceae), native to Central America and South America. Common names for these species include climbing cacti, orchid cacti and leaf cacti, though the latter also refers to the genus '' Pereskia''. Description The stems are broad and flat, 1–5 cm broad, 3–5 mm thick, usually with lobed edges. The flowers themselves are large, with diameters ranging from 8 to 16 cm, white through red, with numerous petals. These flowers have notably short, nocturnal antheses, blooming only at night, and wilting at dawn. The fruit is edible, very similar to the pitaya fruit from the closely related genus '' Hylocereus'', though not so large, being only 3–4 cm long. The broad-leaved epiphyllum ('' Epiphyllum oxypetalum'') is particularly well known species that bears large, strongly fragrant flowers. Taxonomy It was published by Adrian Hardy Haworth in 1812.Haworth, Adri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus. :E.g. ''Panthera leo'' (lion) and ''Panthera onca'' (jaguar) are two species within the genus ''Panthera''. ''Panthera'' is a genus within the family Felidae. The composition of a genus is determined by taxonomy (biology), taxonomists. The standards for genus classification are not strictly codified, so different authorities often produce different classifications for genera. There are some general practices used, however, including the idea that a newly defined genus should fulfill these three criteria to be descriptively useful: # monophyly – all descendants of an ancestral taxon are grouped together (i.e. Phylogeneti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cladogram
A cladogram (from Greek language, Greek ''clados'' "branch" and ''gramma'' "character") is a diagram used in cladistics to show relations among organisms. A cladogram is not, however, an Phylogenetic tree, evolutionary tree because it does not show how ancestors are related to descendants, nor does it show how much they have changed, so many differing evolutionary trees can be consistent with the same cladogram. A cladogram uses lines that branch off in different directions ending at a clade, a group of organisms with a last common ancestor. There are many shapes of cladograms but they all have lines that branch off from other lines. The lines can be traced back to where they branch off. These branching off points represent a hypothetical ancestor (not an actual entity) which can be inferred to exhibit the traits shared among the terminal taxa above it. This hypothetical ancestor might then provide clues about the order of evolution of various features, adaptation, and other e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
