Category: Pereskia

Pereskia grandifolia ?;   Cactus for ID :: Mumbai :: ARKDEC14 : 5 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (4) Seen this cactus in a cultivated garden in Mumbai in November 2016. Is this Pereskia grandiflora? No flowers were seen. It looks like a typical tree and nothing near to a cactus that we normally know […]

Pereskia aculeata Mill., Gard. Dict. ed. 8 s.p. 1768. (Syn: Cactus lucidus Salisb.; Cactus pereskia L.; Pereskia aculeata var. godseffiana (hort.) F.M. Knuth; Pereskia aculeata var. lanceolata Pfeiff.; Pereskia aculeata var. rotundifolia Pfeiff.; Pereskia aculeata var. rubescens Pfeiff.; Pereskia foetens Speg. in Weingart; Pereskia fragrans Lem.; Pereskia godseffiana hort.; Pereskia longispina Haw.; Pereskia pereskia (L.) […]

Pereskia grandifolia Haw., Saxifrag. Enum. 2: 85 1821. (Syn: Cactus grandifolius Link [Illegitimate]; Cactus rosa Vell.;                       Pereskia ochnocarpa Miq.; Pereskia rosea hort. ex A. Dietr.; Pereskia tampicana F.A.C. Weber; Rhodocactus grandifolius (Haw.) F.M. Knuth; Rhodocactus tampicanus (F.A.C. Weber) Backeb.);   Pereskia grandifolia (Rose Cactus; syn. Cactus grandifolius Link, Rhodocactus grandifolius (Haw.) F.M.Knuth, Cactus rosa Vell.) […]

Pereskia bleo (Kunth) DC., Prodr. 3: 475 1828. (Syn. Cactus bleo Kunth; Pereskia corrugata Cutak; Pereskia cruenta Pfeiff. (Unresolved); Pereskia panamensis F.A.C. Weber; Rhodocactus bleo (Kunth) F.M.Knuth; Rhodocactus corrugatus (Cutak) Backeb.); Rose Cactus;   Pereskia bleo (Rose Cactus, Leaf Cactus) is a leafy cactus, native to the shady, moist forests of Central America, that grows to a […]