大花樱麒麟 Pereskia grandifolia

  • Scientific Name: Pereskia grandifolia Haw.
  • Ref: Saxifrag. Enum. 2:85. 1821
  • Synonyms: Cactus rosa Vell., Pereskia tampicana F.A.C.Weber, Rhodocactus grandifolius (Haw.) F.M.Knuth
  • English Common Name: rose cactus
  • Chinese Common Name: 大花樱麒麟 dàhuā yīng∙qílín, 紫花七星针 zǐhuā qīxīng∙zhēn
  • Japanese Common Name: オオバキリン [大葉麒麟] ōbakirin
  • Family: Cactaceae
  • Genus: Rhodocactus
  • Distribution: Lowland forests; 0-50 m; native in South America (E. Brazil).
  • Photo: 04/19/2013, Chenshan Botanical Garden, Shanghai
Shrubs or trees, erect, 2-10 m. Stems to 20 cm diam., very spiny; areoles to 12 mm diam. on basal portion of stem. Leaves elliptic-oblong, 6-30 × 3-9 cm, 0.5 mm thick. Spines all alike, 1-6 per areole, straight, acicular, 1-6.5 cm. Flowers 10-50 in dense cymose-paniculate aggregations, not fragrant, 1.5-3.2 × 3-7 cm; tepals epigynous; scales and areoles in distal 1/2 of receptacles; lateral pedicels 1-3 cm; terminal flower without pedicel; perianth pink. Fruits reddish green to yellowish green, pyriform or tur-binate, often nearly as broad as long, 50-100 × 30-70 mm, often proliferating. Seeds obovoid-ellipsoid, 5-7 × (3.6-)4.5-5(-5.4) mm, glossy. 2n = 22. (Flora of North America, Vol.4)

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