Espostoa lanata

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• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
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• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

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

Biology

Growth

Culture: Space 18-24" apart.

Soil: Minimum pH: 6.1 • Maximum pH: 7.8

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .

Moisture: Drought Tolerance: High

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

Taxonomy

Notes

An accepted name in the RHS Horticultural Database.

Similar Species

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

• Botanical abstracts. Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins Co. url p. 321.
• Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. Washington, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1902- url , , p. 225, p. 270, p. 61, p. 61, p. 62, p. 62, p. V.
• Checklist of CITES Species: a reference to the appendices to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora CITES url p. 282.
• The Cactaceae, descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family, by N. L. Britton and J. N. Rose. Washington, The Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1919-23. url , p. 270, p. 61.
• The Cactaceae: descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family / by N.L. Britton and J.N. Rose. Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1919-1923. url p. 225, p. 270, p. 5, p. 61, p. 62.
• .Li Zhenyu. 1999. Cactaceae. In: Ku Tsuechih, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 52(1): 272-285.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 17, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 23, 2007:

• Herbarium of the University of Aarhus, The AAU Herbarium Database
• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3474749
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15300070
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:97828-2
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 645273

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]

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