Browningia candelaris

Browningia candelaris
	Browningia candelaris
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Browningieae
Genre :	Browningia
Type :	Browningia candelaris
Scientific name
	Browningia candelaris
	( Meyen ) Britton & Rose

Browningia candelaris is a species of the genus Browningia in the cactus family(Cactaceae). A Spanish common name is "Chuyachaqui".

description

Browningia candelaris grows tree-shaped and reaches heights of up to 6 meters. The unbranched trunk is heavily thorny and reaches a diameter of 50 centimeters. The crown consists of almost non-thorny, spread out to aspiring, cylindrical shoots . The roughly 50 low ribs are rounded. The areoles on it are close together. The thorns emerging from the areoles are very thin, yellowish brown to brownish black and up to 1.3 centimeters long. The flowering shoots are without thorns or have a few whitish bristles.

The tubular flowers are white and 8 to 12 inches long. The edible fruits are yellow and up to 7 centimeters long.

Distribution, systematics and endangerment

Browningia candelaris is distributed in northern Chile and southern Peru on the slopes of the Andes at altitudes of around 1800 to 2800 meters. It was first described as Cereus candelaris in 1833 by Franz Julius Ferdinand Meyen . Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose placed them in the genus Browningia in 1920 .

In the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN , the species is called " Data Deficient (DD) ", i. H. with insufficient data.

use

The fruits are eaten as fruit in Peru and processed into shampoo .

proof

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 95-96 .

Individual evidence

↑ J. Meyen: Some about the beautiful cactus species on the west coast of South America . In: Allgemeine Gartenzeitung Volume 1, Number 27, 1833, p. 211, (online) .
^ NL Britton , JN Rose : The Cactaceae. Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family . tape II . The Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington 1920, p. 63-64 .
↑ Browningia candelaris in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Faundez, L., Saldivia, P., Walter, HE, Guerrero, P., Cáceres, F., Ostalaza, C., Roque, J. & Pinto, R., 2011. Retrieved December 31, 2013 .

Web links

Commons : Browningia candelaris - album with pictures, videos and audio files

[1] J. Meyen: Some about the beautiful cactus species on the west coast of South America . In: Allgemeine Gartenzeitung Volume 1, Number 27, 1833, p. 211, (online) .

[2] NL Britton , JN Rose : The Cactaceae. Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family . tape II . The Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington 1920, p. 63-64 .

[3] Browningia candelaris in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Faundez, L., Saldivia, P., Walter, HE, Guerrero, P., Cáceres, F., Ostalaza, C., Roque, J. & Pinto, R., 2011. Retrieved December 31, 2013 .