Cereus peruvianus, (L.) Miller
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1. C. peruvianus (L.) Miller View in CoL , Gard. Diet. ed. 8, no. 4 (1768).
Tree-like, up to 16 m, much-branched; branches 10-20 cm in diameter, green, sometimes glaucous, with (4-)6-9 ribs; spines 5-10, 1-3 cm, acicular, brown to black. Flowers c. 15 cm; tube with thick walls; upper scales and outer perianth-segments red or brownish, inner white. Fruit c. 4 cm in diameter, subglobose, orange-yellow, rather glaucous; seeds 2 mm wide, rough, black. Naturalized on the coast of S. E. France. [Ga.] (S.E. South America.)
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Cereus peruvianus
| Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A. 1981 |
C. peruvianus (L.)
| Miller 1768: 8 |