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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.
Rhodocactus grandifolius (rose cactus; syn. Pereskia grandifolia) is a species of cactus native to eastern and southern Brazil. Like all species in the genus Rhodocactus and unlike most cacti, it has persistent leaves. It was first described in 1819. It is grown as an ornamental plant and has naturalized outside its native range.
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The Cactaceae is a monograph on plants of the cactus family written by the American botanists Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose and published in multiple volumes between 1919 and 1923. It was landmark study that extensively reorganized cactus taxonomy and is still considered a cornerstone of the field. [ 1 ]
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 group was first identified by Britton and Rose in 1920 as the subtribe Hylocereinae of the tribe Cereeae (subtribe Hylocereanae of tribe Cereanae in their terminology). [ 1 ] [ 5 ] In 1958, Buxbaum revised the subtribe Hylocereinae, placing it in a newly created tribe Hylocereeae, [ 1 ] which included four other subtribes, some containing ...
Hatiora is a small genus of epiphytic cacti which belongs to the tribe Rhipsalideae within the subfamily Cactoideae of the Cactaceae.Recent taxonomic studies have led to the three species formerly placed in subgenus Rhipsalidopsis being removed from the genus, including the well known and widely cultivated ornamental plants known as Easter cactus or Whitsun cactus (cultivars or hybrids of the ...