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Pilosocereus lanuginosus
Pilosocereus lanuginosus is a species of flowering plant in the cactus family Cactaceae, native to Venezuela, Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao in the Leeward Islands. It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753 as Cactus lanuginosus.
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Description
Pilosocereus lanuginosus has bluish to greenish stems that are strongly glaucous and have 9–13 ribs. Its branches are usually ascending, sometimes completely upright. The areoles have rigid spines up to 3 cm (1.2 in) long that are golden yellow when young. They often spread and overlap. Flowering areoles have silky hairs up to 3 cm (1.2 in) long in dense tufts. Non-flowering areoles have few hairs. The flowers are 5–7 cm (2.0–2.8 in) long, with glaucous green outer segments (tepals) and white inner segments. The fruit is red.
Range & habitat
Pilosocereus lanuginosus is native to Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao in the Leeward Islands. Bonaire and Curaçao together are treated as the Netherlands Antilles in the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 442102.