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Cleistocactus fieldianus


Common Name(s):
Synonym(s): Borzicactus fieldianus, Clistanthocereus fieldianus, Borzicactus tessellatus, Clistanthocereus tessellatus, Cleistocactus fieldianus, Borzicactus calviflorus, Clistanthocereus calviflorus, Borzicactus samnensis, Clistanthocereus samnensis, Cleistocactus fieldianus, Borzicactus cajamarcensis
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Subfamily: Cactoideae
Tribe: Trichocereeae
Distribution: Amazonas, Ancash, Huanuco, Junin, Lima, Pasco, San Martin, Ucayali - Peru (South America)
Habit: Shrubby-Treelike
Flower: RedEncounterability: Common Locally in Some Areas
Original Description: The Cactaceae 4 p.278 - Britton & Rose (1920)
Forming thickets 3 to 6 meters high, the branches elongated, at first erect or ascending but sometimes becoming pendent or even prostrate; ribs few, perhaps only 6 or 7, stout, broad, 1 to 2 cm high, depressed between the areoles and on young shoots and appearing as tubercled; areoles large, circular, short-lanate and spiny, with a depression extending upward from the upper side to constriction of rib; spines 6 to 10, white, subulate, very unequal, the longest ones 5 cm long or longer; flowers several, from near tip of branches, but with only one from an areole, with a cylindric tube 6 to 7 cm long and a very narrow limb; ovary and flower-tube bearing ovate, acute scales, 1 to 3 mm long, these with long brown hairs in their axils; flower-tube within glabrous below its throat, bearing many stamens 4 cm long; perianth-segments red, 1 cm long; stamens exserted only beyond the perianth-segments, if at all; ovary globular, perhaps somewhat tuberculate, with scattered, long-hairy areoles; fruit probably fleshy, globular to ovoid, 2 cm in diameter.
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Cleistocactus fieldianus
C. fieldianus
Picture taken at: Quail Botanical Gardens, Encinitas, CA

Photographer: Daiv Freeman
Cleistocactus fieldianus
C. fieldianus
Picture taken at: Quail Botanical Gardens, Encinitas, CA

Photographer: Daiv Freeman
Cleistocactus fieldianus
C. fieldianus
Picture taken at: Desert Botanical Garden , Phoenix, AZ

Photographer: Daiv Freeman
Cleistocactus fieldianus
C. fieldianus
Picture taken at: Tony Marino's Private Collection

Photographer: Tony Marino
Cleistocactus fieldianus
C. fieldianus
Picture taken at: Huntington Library and Gardens, San Marino, CA

Photographer: Mike Wisnev
Cleistocactus fieldianus
C. fieldianus
Picture taken at: Huntington Library and Gardens, San Marino, CA

Photographer: Mike Wisnev
Cleistocactus fieldianus
C. fieldianus
Picture taken at: Gerard Ardisson's Private Collection

Photographer: Gerard Ardisson

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Cleistocactus fieldianus
C. fieldianus
Picture taken at: Gerard Ardisson's Private Collection

Photographer: Gerard Ardisson

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Cleistocactus fieldianus subsp. tessellatus


Common Name(s):
Synonym(s): Borzicactus fieldianus, Clistanthocereus fieldianus, Borzicactus tessellatus, Clistanthocereus tessellatus, Cleistocactus fieldianus, Borzicactus calviflorus, Clistanthocereus calviflorus, Borzicactus samnensis, Clistanthocereus samnensis, Cleistocactus fieldianus, Borzicactus cajamarcensis
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Subfamily: Cactoideae
Tribe: Trichocereeae
Distribution: Amazonas, San Martin - Peru (South America)
Habit: Shrubby-Treelike
Flower: RedEncounterability: Common Locally in Some Areas
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Cleistocactus fieldianus
C. fieldianus subsp. tessellatus
Picture taken at: Huntington Library and Gardens, San Marino, CA

Photographer: Daiv Freeman

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