Accession Data
Acanthocereus tetragonus
Common Name: Night-blooming Cereus, Pitahaya
Family: Cactaceae
Synonym(s): Cactus tetragonus L.
Country of Origin: Caribbean, Central America, northern South America
Uses: Fruits and young stems are edible. Forms dense thickets and can be grown as a living fence.
Accession Data
Accession #: 202300051
Accession Date: 2023-03-14 00:00:00
Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering
Location: 2213
Quantity: 2
Source: Matt Opel from Mesa Garden seed
Provenance:
Seed of Mesa Garden 6.38 sown March 9 2021 (as Acanthocereus pentagonus)
Classification
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: core eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Cactaceae
SubFamily: Cactoideae
Tribe: Phyllocacteae
SubTribe: Echinocereinae
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