Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Caryophyllales > Cactaceae > Cereus > Cereus hexagonus

Cereus hexagonus (lady of the night cactus)

Synonyms:

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Low
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Structure [2]  Tree

Predators

Artibeus jamaicensis (Jamaican fruit-eating bat)[3]
Diaspis echinocacti (cactus scale)[4]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 3Artibeus jamaicensis, Jorge Ortega and Iván Castro-Arellano, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 662, pp. 1–9 (2001)
♦ 4Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0