Identification Guide For Invasive Exotic Plants of the Florida Keys
Identification Guide For Invasive Exotic Plants of the Florida Keys
Identification Guide For Invasive Exotic Plants of the Florida Keys
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Scientific Name:<br />
Common Name(s):<br />
Hylocereus undatus<br />
Night-blooming cereus<br />
Height:<br />
Leaves:<br />
Flowers:<br />
Bark:<br />
Fruit:<br />
O<strong>the</strong>r:<br />
Treatment:<br />
May reach 20 feet in length.<br />
Heavy, three-sided, green, fleshy, much-branched stems have flat, wavy<br />
wings with horny margins.<br />
The magnificent, night-blooming, very fragrant, bell-shaped, white flowers,<br />
up to 14 inches long and nine inches wide.<br />
N/A<br />
The non-spiny fruit is oblong-oval, to 4 in (10 cm) long, 2 1/2 in (6.25 cm)<br />
thick, coated with <strong>the</strong> bright-red, fleshy or yellow, ovate bases <strong>of</strong> scales.<br />
Within is white, juicy, sweet pulp containing innumerable tiny black, partly<br />
hollow seeds.<br />
Can be epiphytic ( recently changed from Cereus undatus)<br />
Manual removal<br />
Cal Lemke, University <strong>of</strong> Oklahoma<br />
http://community.webshots.com/photo/62443479/62443708bFoRkt<br />
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