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The species is grown commercially for its yellow fruit, but is also an impressive ornamental climbing vine with perhaps the largest flowers of all cacti. The yellow skinned fruit of S. megalanthus has thorns, unlike the green, red or yellow skinned dragon fruits of S. undatus, S. monacanthus and their cultivated hybrids.
Selenicereus megalanthus (K.Schum. ex Vaupel) Moran: Stems green, slender without horny margins. Flowers 30–38 cm long with large flattened tubercles and small bracts. Fruit yellow. Colombia, Ecuador and Peru [17] Selenicereus minutiflorus (Britton & Rose) D.R.Hunt: Stems green. Flowers with rigid spines at base of flower, 5 cm long, 8–9 cm ...
Hylocereus megalanthus (K. Schum. ex Vaupel) Ralf Bauer → Selenicereus megalanthus; Hylocereus monacanthus (Lem.) Britton & Rose → Selenicereus monacanthus; Hylocereus minutiflorus Britton & Rose → Selenicereus minutiflorus; Hylocereus ocamponis (Salm-Dyck) Britton & Rose → Selenicereus ocamponis; Hylocereus setaceus (Salm-Dyck ex DC.)
Selenicereus megalanthus (Pitaya amarilla or yellow pitaya, also known as Hylocereus megalanthus) has yellow-skinned fruit with white flesh. The fruit normally weighs from 150 to 600 grams (5 + 1 ⁄ 2 to 21 oz); some may reach 1 kg (2 lb 3 oz). [8]
Cyperus megalanthus G.C.Tucker. Cyperus megalanthus is a species of sedge that is native to southern parts of North America and parts of Central America. [1]
C. chinensis has broader tepals, the outer ones white flushed with pink, the inner ones mostly yellow with purple marks at the base. [5] The fruit is an elliptical dry capsule, containing numerous seeds. [9] C. floridus and C. occidentalis are pollinated by beetles. Their flowers produce small protein-rich growths that feed beetle pollinators. [10]
The sepals are about 1 mm (0.039 in) long and the petals yellow or pale yellow, 4–4.5 mm (0.16–0.18 in) long. Flowering occurs from October to February and the fruit is a woody capsule 65–110 mm (2.6–4.3 in) long, studded with rough points up to 4 mm (0.16 in) long. At maturity it separates into five valves, releasing winged seeds 33 ...
Phyllanthus abditus G.L.Webster – S.W. Haiti (Massif de la Hotte); Phyllanthus abnormis Baill. – Florida, S. Central U.S. to N.E. Mexico — Drummond's leafflower ...