Cleistocactus

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Cleistocactus
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Habit:
Height: ⇕
Width: ⇔
Lifespan: ⌛
Origin: ✈
Poisonous: ☠
Exposure: ☼
Water: ◍
Features: ✓
Hardiness: ☃
Bloom: ❀
USDA Zones:
Sunset Zones:
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Cleistocactus (closed Cactus, referring doubts less to the peculiar flowers). Cactaceae. Slender columnar cacti, with few branches and many-ribbed: fls. short and narrowly curved, orange-red; ovary covered with small appressed bracts bearing hairs in their axils; filaments somewhat exserted and grouped together near the upper lip: fr. spineless; pulp white; seeds slightly punctate.—About 14 species have been described in this genus. CH


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