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2. Pilosocereus millspaughii - Wikipedia

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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]

3. A Species Has Gone Extinct in the Keys, and It’s the Start of ...

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   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 ...

4. Pilosocereus robinii - Wikipedia

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   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]

5. In a first, sea rise kills off a Florida Keys species ... - AOL

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   It’s the last place an incredibly rare species of tree called the Key Largo tree cactus was seen alive, back in 2023. The killer? ... Only 60 plants were recorded in that year’s annual survey ...

6. Sea level rise and climate change linked to first local ... - AOL

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   A 2022 report from NOAA predicts sea levels along U.S. coastlines will rise, on average, 10-12 inches through 2050.

7. Pilosocereus - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

8. At least 20 new species identified in recently discovered ...

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   MORE: Key Largo tree cactus becomes 1st-ever US species to become extinct due to rising sea levels Some of the new species discovered include anemones, urchins, corals, some shrimp and a squat ...

9. Tropical hardwood hammock - Wikipedia

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   Key Largo woodrats and the Schaus swallowtail butterfly both utilize relatively young secondary forests in the Florida Keys. Native plant enthusiasts have been promoting the use of native plants and the restoration of native plant communities in South Florida since the early 1970s, and tropical hardwood hammocks are one of the first natural ...