Bottle cactus (Stephanocereus luetzelburgii)
Description
Stephanocereus luetzelburgii grows usually solitary with rarely branched shoots and reaches stature heights of 1 to 1.5 meters. The initially spherical and later elongated, bottle-shaped shoots are dark green. The thinner engine part at the top is 60 to 80 centimeters long. There are 13 to 16 ribs available. The 4 to 5 strong middle spines are yellow and gray in old age. They are up to 3 inches long. The 15 to 18 needlelike spines are yellow to gray and up to 15 millimeters long. The cephalium includes the thin drive part. The areoles are wanted.The bell-shaped to funnel-shaped flowers usually appear in groups near the shoot tip. They are white to slightly pink, up to 2.6 centimeters long and have a diameter of 1.5 centimeters. The depressed globular, initially green fruits later turn blue and reach diameters of 2.5 to 3.5 centimeters.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum:
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Caryophyllales
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Family: Cactaceae
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Genus: Stephanocereus
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