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Espostoa churinensis

(Espostoa)

Interesting Facts

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Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Espostoa

Description

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Family Cactaceae

Fleshy perennials , shrubs , trees or vines , terrestrial or epiphytic. Stems jointed , terete , globose , flattened, or fluted , mostly leafless and variously spiny . Leaves alternate, flat or subulate to terete, vestigial, or entirely absent; spines, glochids (easily detached, small, bristlelike spines), and flowers always arising from cushionlike, axillary areoles (modified short shoots ) . Flowers solitary, sessile, rarely clustered and stalked (in Pereskia), bisexual , rarely unisexual , actinomorphic or occasionally zygomorphic. Receptacle tube (hypanthium or perianth tube) absent or short to elongate , naked or invested with leaflike bracts, scales , areoles, and hairs , bristles , or spines; perianth segments usually numerous , in a sepaloid to petaloid series. Stamens numerous, variously inserted in throat and tube; anthers 2-loculed, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary (pericarpel) inferior, rarely superior, 1-loculed, with 3 to many parietal (rarely basal) placentas; ovules usually numerous; style 1; stigmas 2 to numerous, papillate , rarely 2-fid. Fruit juicy or dry, naked, scaly , hairy , bristly , or spiny, indehiscent or dehiscent , when juicy then pulp derived from often deliquescent funicles (except in Pereskia) . Seeds usually numerous, often arillate or strophiolate ; embryo curved or rarely straight; endosperm present or absent; cotyledons reduced or vestigial, rarely leaflike.

About 110 genera and more than 1000 species: temperate and tropical America; Rhipsalis baccifera (J. S. Mueller) Stearn native in tropical Africa, Madagascar, Comoros, Mascarenes, and Sri Lanka; some species of other genera now extensively naturalized in the Old World through human agency; more than 60 genera and 600 species cultivated as ornamentals or hedges in China, of which four genera and seven species more or less naturalized.[1]

Physical Description

Flowers: Bloom Period: April, May, June.

Size/Age/Growth

Size: 12-18" tall.

Biology

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Growth

Culture: Space 12-15" apart.

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .

Moisture: Drought Tolerance: High

Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 9b, 10a, 10b, 11. (map)

Taxonomy

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Notes

A tentatively accepted name in the RHS Horticultural Database.

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Espostoa

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 23 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

E. baumannii (Espostoa) · E. blossfeldiorum (Espostoa) · E. calva (Espostoa) · E. churinensis (Espostoa) · E. frutescens (Espostoa) · E. guentheri (Espostoa) · E. huanucoensis (Espostoa) · E. hylaea (Espostoa) · E. lanata (Peruvian Cactus) · E. lanata f. cristata (Crested Peruvian Old Man Cactus) · E. lanata ritteri (Peruvian Old Man Cactus) · E. lanata superba (Peruvian Old Man Cactus) · E. lanata var. rubrispina (Peruvian Old Man Cactus) · E. lanata var. sericata (Peruvian Old Man Cactus) · E. lanianuligera (Espostoa) · E. melanostele (Espostoa) · E. melanostele var. robusta (Espostoa) · E. mirabilis (Espostoa) · E. nana (Espostoa) · E. ritteri (Peruvian Old Man Cactus) · E. ruficeps (Espostoa) · E. senilis (Espostoa) · E. superba (Espostoa)

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Further Reading

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Notes

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Footnotes

  1. Zhen-yu Li & Nigel P. Taylor "Cactaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 13 Page 209. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
Last Revised: 7/21/2012