Hylocereus costaricensis
Hylocereus costaricensis
Hylocereus costaricensis is a flowering plant in the genus Hylocereus from the cactus family ( Cactaceae ). The epithet refers to the type locality of the Costa Rica.
Hylocereus costaricensis growing climber or liana -like thick with up to 10 inches, three -edged, green shoots, which are bluish gray to whitish with time. Your thin ribs are somewhat straight or wavy and on the edge of not keratinized. The 2-4 short and stout brown spines are usually accompanied by two hairs or bristles which fall soon.
The up to 30 centimeters long, fragrant flowers appear near the shoot tips. They are white on the outside or sometimes reddish and white on the inside. The oblong, scarlet fruits are up to 10 centimeters long.
Distribution, systematics and hazard
Hylocereus costaricensis is common in Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Panama. The first description as Cereus trigonus var costaricensis was published in 1902 by Frédéric Albert Constantin Weber. Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose they put 1909 in the genus Hylocereus.
Hylocereus costaricensis is known only insufficient and is possibly only a synonym of Hylocereus Monacanthus.
In the Red List of Threatened Species IUCN, the type is known as " Least Concern ( LC) ," ie, than not led at risk.