Baby Night Blooming Cactus Flower - Approximately Two Inches Across - For The Macro Mondays Theme ‘Wrinkled’

            Baby Night Blooming Cereus Cactus I Grew From A Cutting Bloomed Last Night In My June Garden. It Was Closing At 9:14 AM

Harrisia bonplandii
Species of cactus
Harrisia bonplandii is a species of cactus. The cactus plants in the Gran Chaco (Paraguay, Argentina, Bolivia) are generally called tuna and this specific variety reina de la noche (queen of the night). Fruits and roots are edible and well known to the native nations of the Gran Chaco.

Quick Facts Harrisia bonplandii, Scientific classification ...
Harrisia bonplandii

Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
Clade:
Tracheophytes
Clade:
Angiosperms
Clade:
Eudicots
Order:
Caryophyllales
Family:
Cactaceae
Subfamily:
Cactoideae
Genus:
Harrisia
Species:
H. bonplandii
Binomial name
Harrisia bonplandii
(Parm.) Britton & Rose
Synonyms
Cereus bonplandii J.Parm. 1837
Eriocereus bonplandii (J.Parm. ex Pfeiff.) Riccob. 1909
Harrisia pomanensis subsp. bonplandii (J.Parm. ex Pfeiff.) P.J.Braun & Esteves 1995
Acanthocereus acutangulus (Pfeiff.) A.Berger 1929
Cereus acutangulus Pfeiff. 1837
Cereus balansae K.Schum. 1890
Cereus bonplandii var. brevispinus C.A.Maass 1905
Cereus bonplandii var. pomanensis F.A.C.Weber 1897
Cereus guelichii Speg. 1905
Cereus pomanensis var. grossei Graebener 1909
Echinopsis balansae (K.Schum.) Anceschi & Magli 2013
Eriocereus guelichii (Speg.) A.Berger 1929
Harrisia balansae (K.Schum.) N.P.Taylor & Zappi 1997
Harrisia guelichii (Speg.) Britton & Rose 1920
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Names of this cactus in the different languages of the native Nations are: Ayoreo Nation: daturirai / datura; Enxet Nation: laapang; Nivaclé Nation: sôtôyuc. In Argentina it is also known as pasacana/ulua. The plant remains often unnoticed in the forest, but can not be overseen when it blossoms only in the night and where its Spanish name originates.

The name bonplandii honors the French scientist Aimé Bonpland.

Description
Harrisia bonplandii is stem scandent, clambering or sprawling and grows up leaning-climbing. The stems have diameters of up to 5 centimeters and are up to 2.5 meters long. They are three to four edged with flat faces. Their edges are sharp and wavy. The single strong central spine is up to 2.5 centimeters long. The four to five side spines reach a length of 4 to 5 millimeters The flowers reach a length of 20 to 25 centimeters Their pericarpel and the corolla tube are virtually without wool, but filled with large scurf’s. The spherical, redfruits are edible and strongly tuberculate. They have diameters of 4 to 4.5 centimetres.

Distribution
Harrisia bonplandii can be found in the southwest of Brasil, in Paraguay, in Bolivia and in the north of Argentina in the Chaco at elevations of 80–900 meters.

Taxonomy
The first description as Cereus bonplandii was realized at 1837 from Ludwig Georg Karl Pfeiffer. Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose classified the type in 1920 as Genus Harrisia. Nomenclature synonyms are Eriocereus bonplandii (J.Parm. & Pfeiff.) Riccob. (1909) and Harrisia pomanensis subsp. bonplandii (J.Parm. & Pfeiff.) P.J.Braun & Esteves (1994, not the correct Name ICBN-Artikel 11.4).
   

Taken on: June 29, 2024

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