{"id":1417722,"date":"2011-03-20T07:14:49","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T07:14:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-24T18:50:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T13:20:20","slug":"pereskia-grandifolia","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/efi\/pereskia-grandifolia\/","title":{"rendered":"Pereskia grandifolia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pereskia<\/i> grandifolia<\/i> Haw.<\/span><\/font><\/a>, Saxifrag. Enum. 2: 85 1821<\/em>. (Syn: Cactus<\/i> grandifolius<\/i> Link<\/span><\/font><\/a> [Illegitimate]; Cactus<\/i> rosa<\/i> Vell.<\/span><\/font><\/a>;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pereskia<\/i> ochnocarpa<\/i> Miq.<\/span><\/font><\/a>; Pereskia<\/i> rosea<\/i> hort. ex A. Dietr.<\/span><\/font><\/a>; Pereskia<\/i> tampicana<\/i> F.A.C. Weber<\/span><\/font><\/a>; Rhodocactus<\/i> grandifolius<\/i> (Haw.) F.M. Knuth<\/span><\/font><\/a>; Rhodocactus<\/i> tampicanus<\/i> (F.A.C. Weber) Backeb.<\/span><\/font><\/a>);<\/div>\n
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Pereskia grandifolia<\/i> (Rose Cactus<\/b>; <\/font>syn.<\/font><\/a> Cactus grandifolius<\/i> Link, Rhodocactus grandifolius<\/i> (<\/font>Haw.<\/font><\/a>) <\/font>F.M.Knuth<\/font><\/a>, Cactus rosa<\/i> Vell.) is a tree native to the <\/font>Northeastern Brazil restingas<\/font><\/a>.<\/font> <\/div>\n

This plant is often used as a <\/font>medicinal plant<\/font><\/a> and an <\/font>ornamental plant<\/font><\/a>. In addition, it has edible leaves.<\/font><\/div>\n
Although it is a cactus by classification, it takes the form of a <\/font>shrub<\/font><\/a> or small <\/font>tree<\/font><\/a>, 2-5 meters high, with a grayish-brown trunk up to 20 cm in diameter. The <\/font>areolees<\/font><\/a> are rounded cushion-shaped grayish or brownish <\/font>tomentum<\/font><\/a>; on the twigs they are 3-7 mm diameter and up to 12 mm on the main trunk. The spines range from black to brown, the number at each areole gradually increasing with age; new twigs can have spineless areoles, while the trunk areoles may have up to 90 spines, each 2-6.5 cm long. The leaves vary in size from 9-23 cm long, entire, with shapes ranging from elliptic to ovate and obovate-lanceolate.<\/font><\/div>\n
The dense <\/font>inflorescence<\/font><\/a> develops at the ends of stems, usually with 10-15 flowers, but sometimes with 30 or more. The flowers are showy and rose-like, 3-5 cm in diameter.<\/font>\u00a0(Ref. Wikipedia<\/font><\/a> – 1.4.13)<\/font>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n
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The Plant List 1<\/a>\u00a0 The Plant List 2<\/a> \u00a0<\/span>GRIN<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Flora of\u00a0North America<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Flowers of India<\/a>\u00a0 <\/span>Wikipedia<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Dave\u2019s Garden<\/a>
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Pereskia grandifolia Haw., Saxifrag. Enum. 2: 85 1821. (Syn: Cactus grandifolius Link [Illegitimate]; Cactus rosa Vell.;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.); \u00a0 Pereskia grandifolia (Rose Cactus; syn. Cactus grandifolius Link, Rhodocactus grandifolius…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[6755],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1417722","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-pereskia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1417722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1417722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1417722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1417722"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1417722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}