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Pilosocereus millspaughii, commonly called the Key Largo tree cactus, [citation needed] is a species of flowering plant in the family Cactaceae, native to Florida, The Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti, and the Turks and Caicos Islands. [1] It was first described by Nathaniel Lord Britton in 1909 as Cephalocereus millspaughii. [2]
Pilosocereus robinii is a species of cactus known by the common name Key tree-cactus. [2] It is native to the Florida Keys in the United States. [3] It also occurs in Western Cuba and the Northern Bahamas. It has been erroneously reported from Puerto Rico, [4] the Virgin Islands, [4] and Mexico. [2]
After the plants flowered one last time, the research team salvaged the plants for replanting in greenhouses. With no other known stands of the cactus in the U.S., the plant is effectively extinct ...
While the unique tree cactus may be the first recorded species to go locally extinct due to sea level rise in the U.S., plenty of other species are threatened too. And some on the same key.
Pilosocereus (from Latin, "hairy cereus") is a genus of cactus native to the Neotropics. Tree cactus is a common name for Pilosocereus species. [2] The genera Caerulocereus and Pseudopilocereus are synonyms of this genus. [1] The commonly cultivated Pilosocereus pachycladus (syn. Pilosocereus azureus) is a blue cactus with hairy areoles that ...
This cactus is a species of tree [4] which grows up to eight feet/2.4 meters tall. The stem segments are up to 40 centimeters long and are "copiously armed" with pink spines which can exceed 12 centimeters in length. The spines on the trunk all point downward and are the largest spines on the plant.
A 2022 report from NOAA predicts sea levels along U.S. coastlines will rise, on average, 10-12 inches through 2050.
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