ID Help

[dbbard]

Hi

I have a cutting of a cactus that I can't identify.

It comes from a parent off of the side of the road: it is a multi branched tree approximately 4m high by 4m wide.

Any ideas?

Cheers

Edited March 28, 2009 by dbbard

[Jack]

Looks like some kind of cereus

[gilligan]

These queries keep popping up...

I wonder if there should be a pinned thread with the most common types of columnars (cereus, pach, peruv, bridge) on it that newbs can look at before making new threads about cereus all the time

Not being a prick, but i think this might assist with not having these commond id threads posted over and over again...

I might actually do this tonight (at work now) unless someone beats me to it...

[dbbard]

Sorry for the newb questions but do you mean the genus Cereus or cereus in refering to its column like habit.

I have looked in Anderson "The Cactus Family" and have not been able to identify it nor have I been able to using Innes and Glass "The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of cacti" (though I think I have more of an idea).

There are 7 ribs and six spines.

Cereus aethiops???

C. forbesii?

Any one?

[bit]

I would simply classify it as Cereus Peurvianus. Although Cereus Peruvianus is not a botanically correct term, unless you want to do some serious (cerious?) research it wills uffice. Cereus taxonomy is more convoluted and confusing than Trichocereus. Most here are familiar more familiar with Trichocereus taxonomy than other cacti families, and will attest to the vast diversity and confustion in that area.

Edited March 28, 2009 by bit

[dbbard]

Cheers and thanks for the ceious (serious !!! ha ha ha) help