Common name: Night-blooming Cereus, Pitahaya
Family: Cactaceae
Synonym(s): <i>Cactus tetragonus</i> L.
Country of Origin: Caribbean, Central America, northern South America
Description:
Uses: Fruits and young stems are edible. Forms dense thickets and can be grown as a living fence.
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USDA Zone:
Source: Matt Opel from Mesa Garden seed
Provenance:
Seed of Mesa Garden 6.38 sown March 9 2021 (as Acanthocereus pentagonus)
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Culture:
Classification:
- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Magnoliopsida
- SubClass: core eudicots
- Order: Caryophyllales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Cactaceae
- SubFamily: Cactoideae
- Tribe: Phyllocacteae
- SubTribe: Echinocereinae
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