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Project Name Data (Last Modified On 11/29/2012)
 

Flora Data (Last Modified On 11/29/2012)
Species PERESKIA BLEO (HBK.) DC.
PlaceOfPublication Prodr. 3:475. 1828
Reference Britton & Rose, in Carnegie Inst. Wash. Publ. No. 248. 1:17. 1919.
Synonym Cactus bleo HBK. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 6:69. 1823. Pereskia panamensis Weber, in Bois, Dict. Hort. 739. 1898.
Description Shrubs or small trees to 4-7 m. tall; branches terete, rather stout, armed with few to several slender straight spines usually about 1 cm. long. Leaves rather long-petiolate, the blade usually elliptic-obovate, acuminate, cuneate, 4-20 cm. long, 2-7 cm. broad, the petiole 0.5-3.5 cm. long. Flowers usually few or solitary in terminal or axillary panicles shorter than the subtending leaves; pedicels about 5 mm. long; perianth pink to deep red, rotate, about 5-7 cm. in diameter, the segments rather numerous, the inner broadly obovate, the outer oblong-linear; stamens numerous, about half as long as the perianth segments; style rather stout, slightly longer than the stamens. Berry turbinate, 5-6 cm. long and broad, with several more or less persistent bracts, yellow when ripe.
Habit Shrub tree
Distribution Panama and northwestern South America. In Panama the plants are known as gajz' de culebra and iajz de espinas. Britton and Rose found that the plants widely cultivated as P. bleo actually should be referred to P. grandifolia Haw., a native of Brazil.
Specimen DARIEN: trail between Pinogano and Yavisa, Allen 28i; Marraganti, Williams 66i; Cana, Pittier I884. PANAMA: Chepo, Pittier 4704. SAN BLAS: Caledonia Harbor, Elmore L34.
 
 
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