Oreocereus

Plant Characteristics

Cultivation

Scientific Names
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Read about Oreocereus in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Oreocereus (the mountain Cereus). Pilocereus in part of authors. Cactaceae. Usually large columnar plants with strong armaments and producing long white hairs or wool like Cephalocereus, but with very different fls.: ovary and fl.-tube covered by numerous imbricating bracts with their axils filled with long woolly hairs; stamens numerous, as long or longer than the petals; style long exscrted.—Two species are in cult, and are described below. They are cult, the same as Pilocereus. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

Cultivation

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