Common name:
Family: Cactaceae
Synonym(s):
Country of Origin: Peru
Description: Areoles [short shoots] grow and produce flowers for many years.
Uses: This plant is used as an ingredient in the ceremonial drink "cimora." The spines were at one time used to make fishhooks and weaving combs.
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USDA Zone:
Source: Plant - Mesa Gardens
Provenance:
OST84055 Chillon River Valley, 750m - Peru
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Culture:
Classification:
- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Magnoliopsida
- SubClass: core eudicots
- Order: Caryophyllales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Cactaceae
- SubFamily: Cactoideae
- Tribe: Phyllocacteae
- SubTribe: Corryocactinae
References:
- The Plant List (2010). Version 1. Published on the Internet; http://www.theplantlist.org/ (accessed 29 October 2013).
- Neoraimondia arequipensis. (2011, June 26). Wikispecies, . Retrieved 14:55, October 29, 2013
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