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Haageocereus australis

(Quisco De La Costa De Arica)

Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Quisco De La Costa De Arica

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.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.

Physical Description

Flowers: Flower Color: near white, white

Biology

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Growth

Culture: Space 18-24" apart.

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .

Moisture: Drought Tolerance: High

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

Taxonomy

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Similar Species

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Members of the genus Haageocereus

There are approximately 124 species in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

H. acanthocladus · H. achaetus · H. acranthus (Haageocereus) · H. acranthus acranthus · H. acranthus subsp. backebergii · H. acranthus subsp. deflexispinus · H. acranthus subsp. olowinskianus · H. acranthus subsp. zonatus · H. acranthus var. fortalezensis · H. akersii · H. albisetatus · H. albispinus (Haageocereus) · H. albus · H. ambiguus · H. aureispinus · H. australis (Quisco De La Costa De Arica) · H. cephalomacrostibas · H. chalaensis (Haageocereus) · H. chilensis · H. chosicensis · H. chrysacanthus · H. chryseus (Haageocereus) · H. churinensis · H. clavatus · H. clavispinus · H. climaxanthus · H. comosus · H. crassiareolatus · H. crassiareolatus Rauh & Backeb. var. smaragdisepalus Rauh & Backeb. · H. cuzcoensis · H. decumbens (Haageocereus) · H. decumbens subsp. tenuis · H. decumbens var. spinosior (Haageocereus) · H. deflexispinus · H. dichromus · H. dichromus Rauh & Backeb. var. pallidior Rauh & Backeb. · H. divaricatispinus · H. elegans · H. fascicularis (Quisco De La Precordillera De Arica) · H. fasciculatus · H. faustianus · H. fulvus · H. horrens · H. humifusus · H. icensis (Haageocereus) · H. icosagonoides (Haageocereus) · H. johnsonii · H. lachayensis · H. lanugispinus (Haageocereus) · H. lanugispinus 'Densiaculeatus' (Haageocereus) · H. laredensis · H. laredensis var. longispinus · H. limensis · H. litoralis · H. longiareolatus · H. longicomus · H. mamillatus · H. mamillatus var. brevior · H. melanostele · H. multangularis · H. multicolorispinus · H. ocona-camanensis · H. olowinskianus · H. olowinskianus subvar. erythranthus · H. pacalaensis (Haageocereus) · H. pacalaensis subsp. repens · H. pacalaensis var. laredensis (Haageocereus) · H. pacalaensis var. longispinus (Haageocereus) · H. pacalaensis var. repens (Haageocereus) · H. pachystele · H. pachystele Rauh & Backeb. var. salyanensis · H. paradoxus · H. peniculatus · H. piliger · H. platinospinus (Haageocereus) · H. platinospinus var. pluriflorus · H. pluriflorus (Haageocereus) · H. pseudoacranthus · H. pseudomelanostele (Haageocereus) · H. pseudomelanostele 'Chosicensis' (Haageocereus) · H. pseudomelanostele aureispinus · H. pseudomelanostele subsp. acanthocladus · H. pseudomelanostele subsp. aureispinus · H. pseudomelanostele subsp. carminiflorus · H. pseudomelanostele subsp. chryseus · H. pseudomelanostele subsp. turbidus · H. pseudomelanostele turbidus · H. pseudomelanostele var. clavatus (Haageocereus) · H. pseudomelanostele var. setosus (Haageocereus) · H. pseudoversicolor (Haageocereus) · H. rauhii · H. repens · H. rigidispinus · H. salmonoides · H. salmonoideus · H. seticeps · H. seticeps Rauh & Backeb. var. bruneispinus · H. seticeps Rauh & Backeb. var. robustispinus Rauh & Backeb. · H. setosus · H. smaragdiflorus

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Last Revised: 2008-10-22