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Leuenbergeria quisqueyana, known as the Bayahibe rose, [2] is a species of cactus that is endemic to the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, in the Dominican Republic. [ 3 ] Taxonomy
He named it quisqueyana in honor of the Dominican Republic, also called Quisqueya. As it becomes threatened, Act 146-11 made the Bayahibe Rose the Dominican Republic's national flower and protected it. Leuenbergeria quisqueyana, a dioic cactus, looks like a shrub and can grow to six meters. Clustered thorns around the tree stem.
Although Rhodocactus grandifolius is a cactus by classification, it takes the form of a shrub or small tree, 2–5 m (7–16 ft) in height, exceptionally 10 m (33 ft). Young twigs are green or reddish with conspicuous white spots marking the stomata. It has trunk has grayish-brown bark and has a diameter of up to 20 cm (8 in).
Leuenbergeria bleo, formerly Pereskia bleo, [2] (rose cactus, leaf cactus) is a leafy cactus, native to the shady, moist forests of Central America, that grows to a woody, prickly shrub about 2 m tall with large, orange flowers resembling rose blossoms.
The flowers are purple or magenta, rarely rose-pink, about 5 cm (2.0 in) wide. [10] The fruits are yellowish, tubercular like the stems, [ 10 ] and shaped something like the frustum of a cone, with a hollow at the wide end where the flower fell off; they are often mistaken for flowers.
Nyctocereus Britton & Rose Peniocereus is a genus of vining cacti , comprising about 18 species , found from the southwestern United States and Mexico . They have a large underground tuber, thin and inconspicuous stems.
Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose already considered the possibility of an independent genre in 1919. Alwin Berger finally elevated the species to the status of an independent genus in 1926. Brasiliopuntia brasiliensis was placed in the genus Opuntia when the very broad genus Cactus was dismembered.
Coryphantha (from Greek, "flowering on the top"), or beehive cactus, is a genus of small to middle-sized, globose or columnar cacti. The genus is native to arid parts of Central America, Mexico, through Arizona, New Mexico, and western Texas and north into southwestern, central, and southeastern Montana.