Xerophyte

Seeds

Black 5 mm Long.

Description

The typical Nyctocereus serpentinusSN|7251]]SN|7251]] is a fast-growing slender, shrubby columnar cacti from that grows often in groups, erect at first sometimes climbing then leaning and sprawling all over and best tied to something so it wont fall and grow decumbent. It would be good for hanging baskets.

Roots

Large tuberose

Note

The crested form are cultivated for their beautiful stem with long bristly dark brown-red spine and pronounced sculpture effects. These plants produce monstrous crests, and crests occasionally produce normal shoots.

Flowers

When old enough it bears large, nocturnal flowers, they are funnelform, white with pinkish outside segments, 15 to 20cm long (15 cm in diameter), pericarpel and flowers with bristles. The flowers are very fragrant, like gardenias.

Spines

9 to 14 needle-like spines, whitish to reddish when young, with darker tips, 10-30mm long.

Ribs

10-17 obtuse.

Stem

Slender, snake-like, dark coloured, cylindrical, 3-6 meters long, 2,5-5 cm in diameter.

Fruits

4-6 cm long, red, egg-shaped, edible, spiny, with spines that fall when it is ripe.

Areoles

Whitish white wool