Characteristics
Dicots
Cereus hexagonus (L.)Mill.
LADY-OF-THE-NIGHT CACTUS
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This arborescent cactus is commonly cultivated in Florida and the West Indies. It is often misidentified as C. repandus, a species with much shorter flowers (5-11 cm long) (Britton & Rose 1920:17-18). The name C. lepidotus might possibly be more applicable to this species here, such that C. hexagonus could be misapplied here (Taylor & Zappi 2019).
Not Native
Citation
CEREUS HEXAGONUS (Linnaeus) Miller, Gard. Dict. (ed. 8). Cereus #1. 1768.
Cactus hexagonus Linnaeus 1753.
SURINAM: Without data (lectotype: Trew, Acta Phys. -Med. Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. Nat. Cur. 3: 25, t. 8. 1733). Lectotypified by Leuenberger, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 111: 153, f. 2. 1989.