The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . Fig. 138.—Lemaireocereus deficiens. Lemaireocereus weberi. 15. Lemaireocereus queretaroensis (Weber) Safford, Ann. Rep. Smiths. Inst. 1908: pi. 6, f. 2. 1909. Cereus qiieretaroensis Weber in Mathsson, Monatsschr. Kakteenk. i: 27. qiieretaroensis Britton and Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 422. 1909. Plant 3 to 5 meters high, with a short woody trunk, much branched above; ribs 6 to 8, prominent,obtuse; areoles about 1 cm. apart, large, brown-woolly, very glandular; spines 6 to 10, at first red,bec
The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . Fig. 138.—Lemaireocereus deficiens. Lemaireocereus weberi. 15. Lemaireocereus queretaroensis (Weber) Safford, Ann. Rep. Smiths. Inst. 1908: pi. 6, f. 2. 1909. Cereus qiieretaroensis Weber in Mathsson, Monatsschr. Kakteenk. i: 27. qiieretaroensis Britton and Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 422. 1909. Plant 3 to 5 meters high, with a short woody trunk, much branched above; ribs 6 to 8, prominent,obtuse; areoles about 1 cm. apart, large, brown-woolly, very glandular; spines 6 to 10, at first red,becoming grayish in age, acicular, rather unequal, sometimes only 15 mm. long, at other times 5 ; flowers 7 to 8 cm. long; ovary with many woolly areoles subtended by ovate scales 2 mm. longor less; fruit spiny, edible. Type locality: Queretaro, Mexico. Distribution: Central Mexico. This species was formerly referred by us to the genus Pachycereus, but it has since beenlearned that the fruit is not dry, but juicy and edible, and therefore the plant is more prop-erly a Lemaireocereus. Its peculiar glandular
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