Harrisia fragrans
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Harrisia fragrans is a species of plant in the genus Harrisia fromthe cactus family (Cactaceae). The specific epithet fragrans means 'fragrant'. English common names are "Fragant Prickly Apple" and "Fragrant Woolly Cactus".
description
Harrisia fragrans grows with upright, spreading or leaning-climbing, more or less cylindrical shoots and reaches heights of up to 5 meters. There are ten to twelve deeply furrowed ribs, pressed together between the areoles . The nine to 13 needle-like, gray thorns have a yellowish tip and are 2 to 4 centimeters long.
The pink to white, fragrant flowers are 12 to 20 centimeters long. The cloudy red, spherical to egg-shaped fruits reach a diameter of up to 6 centimeters and are covered with tufts of long hair.
Distribution, systematics and endangerment
Harrisia fragrans is found in the United States in the state of Florida in St. Lucie County near the coast.
It was first described in 1920 by John Kunkel Small in Nathaniel Lord Britton's and Joseph Nelson Rose 's work The Cactaceae . A nomenclature synonym is Cereus eriophorus var. Fragrans (Small) LDBenson (1969).
Harrisia fragrans is listed as Endangered under the US Endangered Species Act .
proof
literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 339 .
Individual evidence
- ^ 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. 149-150 ( online ).
