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Botanical details
- Family
- Cactaceae
- Native to the UK
- No
- Potentially harmful
- Genus
Espostoa
- Genus description
A genus of 16 species of cacti from southern Ecuador and Peru, grown mainly as houseplants. They have tall, columnar stems covered in fuzzy, soft white hairs which hide circles of sharp spines. Bell or cup-shaped flowers are generally white, rarely red, and bloom at night and the sweet, juicy fruits are edible
- Name status
Unresolved
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