Oreocereus

Plant Characteristics

Habit		cacti-succulent

Cultivation

Scientific Names

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Oreocereus is a genus of cacti (family Cactaceae), known only from high altitudes of the Andes. Its name was formed from Greek and means "mountain cereus".

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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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.

Species

• Oreocereus celsianus - old man of the Andes
• Oreocereus doelzianus
• Oreocereus fossulatus
• Oreocereus hendriksenianus
• Oreocereus leucotrichus
• Oreocereus maximus
• Oreocereus ritteri
• Oreocereus trollii
• Oreocereus variicolor

The following genera have been included in this genus:

• Arequipa Britton & Rose
• Arequipiopsis Kreuz. & Buining
• Morawetzia Backeb.
• Submatucana Backeb.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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