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Selenicereus megalanthus
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Selenicereus megalanthus, synonym Hylocereus megalanthus, is a cactus species in the genus Selenicereus that is native to northern South America, where it is known, along with its fruit, by the name of pitahaya. The species is grown commercially for its yellow fruit, but is also an impressive ornamental climbing vine with perhaps the largest flowers of all cacti.
- Family
- Cactaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Selenicereus megalanthus
- Slug
- selenicereus-megalanthus
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Cactaceae
- Genus
- Selenicereus
- Species
- megalanthus
- Wikidata QID
- Q139902
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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