The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . Texas. Distribution: Southern Texas and Coahuila. This cactus does not grow well on its own roots in green-house cultivation, but gradually loses its vitality; we have hadplants, however, to persist in cultivation for ten years. Ifgrafted on cuttings of Selenicereus pteranthus, very vigorousplants can be developed, which will flower each year. It issometimes called sacasil. The flowers open in the afternoon, but close at night,opening and closing in this way for from 5 to 9 days. Theyhave a pleasing odor. Illustrat
The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . Texas. Distribution: Southern Texas and Coahuila. This cactus does not grow well on its own roots in green-house cultivation, but gradually loses its vitality; we have hadplants, however, to persist in cultivation for ten years. Ifgrafted on cuttings of Selenicereus pteranthus, very vigorousplants can be developed, which will flower each year. It issometimes called sacasil. The flowers open in the afternoon, but close at night,opening and closing in this way for from 5 to 9 days. Theyhave a pleasing odor. Illustrations: Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 13: 77; Knippel,Kakteen pi. 15; Bliihende Kakteen 1: pi. 38; Schelle, f. 53, as Echinocereus tuberosus; Engelmann, Bound, pi. 59, f. 12; Goebel, Pflanz. Schild. 1: pi. 4, f. 1;Blanc, Cacti 38. f. 348, 349, as C. tuberosus. Figure 164 is from a photograph of a flowering plant in thecollection of the New York Botanical Garden; figure 165 showsthe cluster of tuberous roots of a plant grown at Floral Park, New York, in Fig. 165.—Cluster of tuberousroots of W. poselgeri. 3. Wilcoxia striata (Brandegee) Britton and Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 434. 1909. Cereus slriatus Brandegee, Zoe 2:19. 1891. Cereus diguelii Weber, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 1:319. 1895. Roots brownish, deep-seated; stem vine-like, very slender, usually with 9 indistinct ribs, grayish;spines about 9, to 3 mm. long, acicular, weak, appressed, brownish, the areoles rather distant;flowers 10 to 12 cm. long, purple, the areoles bearing slender, bristle-like spines and long wool; fruitpyriform, 3 to 4 cm. long, scarlet, spiny, the spines deciduous; seeds minutely pitted. Type locality: San Jose del Cabo, Lower California. Distribution: Lower California and Sonora, Mexico. The natives call it pitayita, pitahayita, sacamatraca, saramatraca, and jaramataca. This differs from the type species of the genus in its much larger, funnelform flowers.
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