Stenocereus dumortieri

Stenocereus dumortieri is a flowering plant in the family Cactaceae that is found in Querétaro, Mexico at elevations of 1800 meters.[1]

Stenocereus dumortieri
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Cactaceae
Subfamily: Cactoideae
Genus: Stenocereus
Species:
S. dumortieri
Binomial name
Stenocereus dumortieri
(Scheidw.) Backeb. 1942
Synonyms

Isolatocereus dumortieri (Scheidw.) Buxb. 1999

Description

It has arborescent growth and reaches up to 7 m in height. Its trunk measures up to 1.5 m in length and about 35 cm in width. Glaucous green stem, covered with grayish wax. Branches erect, parallel to each other, all almost the same length, curved at the base, with the apex attenuated, 13-15 cm broad, with reddish-brown wool and some short, bristly spines, usually with annual constrictions of well marked growth. tubular flowers. Subglobose to ellipsoid fruit, red pulp, 3 to 4 cm long and 2 to 3.5 cm wide, covered with short podaries arranged in 4 series, with areoles provided with a reduced deltoid basal scab and short emerging felt, with very short spines, dehiscent at its apical part, giving off a pleasant aroma similar to that of jasmine, very juicy, fleshy and sweet when ripe[2]

References
  1. "Tropicos | Name - Isolatocereus dumortieri". tropicos.org. Retrieved 2017-08-03.
  2. Valiente-Banuet A, Casas A, Alcántara A, Dávila P, Flores-Hernández N, Arizmendi M del C, Villaseñor J L, Ramírez J O. 2000. La vegetación del valle de Tehuacán-Cuicatlán. Boletín de la Sociedad Botánica de México 67:25-74.


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