{"id":1251,"date":"2025-10-30T01:05:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T06:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opuntiads.com\/oblog\/?p=1251"},"modified":"2025-10-30T01:05:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T06:05:41","slug":"more-stenocereus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/oblog\/more-stenocereus\/","title":{"rendered":"More Stenocereus"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Photograph = Stenocereus gummosus in flower, Christian Defferrard)<\/sup><\/p>\n

Introduction<\/h2>\n

Stenocereus contains mostly columnar cacti, but several\u00a0break that rule and one actually grows along the ground like a vine (S. eruca). One species of Stenocereus grows in the United States, S. thurberi.<\/p>\n

The Details<\/h3>\n

Anderson (2001) wrote that\u00a0there are 17 species of Stenocereus. \u00a0Other authors placed some of the species into other genera. So, perhaps there are\u00a0there are fewer than 17 species. However, some botanists have reported\u00a0there are 23 species.<\/p>\n

Setnocereus has a complicated taxonomic history, which makes sense for a genus that grows from South America to southern Arizona and into the Caribbean. Various names have been applied to plants in the genus including Rathbunia, Cereus, Pachycereus, Lemaireocereus and Isolaterocereus.<\/p>\n

Stenocereus spines are usually thick and stubborn. Some of the larger columnar types are huge, reach 40 to 50-ft tall \u00a0in the wild. The flowers are pale and suggest bat pollination.<\/p>\n

Additional Reading:\u00a0Domestication of Stenocereus pruinosus<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Stenocereus <\/a>
Stenocereus gummosus, Pichilingue, Baja C alifornia del Norte, Amante Darmanin <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Stenocereus <\/a>
Stenocereus pruinosus, San Luis Potosi, MX, Amante Darmanin <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Stenocereus <\/a>
Stenocereus gummosus, areole and spines, Dogtooth <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Stenocereus <\/a>
Stenocereus eruca, Amante Darmanin <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Stenocereus <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Stenocereus <\/a>
Stenocereus stellatus, in habitat, Oaxaca, MX, Amante Darmanin <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Stenocereus <\/a>
Stenocereus thurberi, Christian Defferrard <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Stenocereus <\/a>
Stenocereus alamosensis, Sinaloa, MX, Amante Darmanin <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Photograph = Stenocereus gummosus in flower, Christian Defferrard) Introduction Stenocereus contains mostly columnar cacti, but several\u00a0break that rule and one actually grows along the ground like a vine (S. eruca). One species of Stenocereus grows in the United States, S. thurberi. The Details Anderson (2001) wrote that\u00a0there are 17 species of Stenocereus. \u00a0Other authors placed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[34,47,22],"class_list":["post-1251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cacti","tag-mexico","tag-spines","tag-unusual"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/oblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/stenocereus-gummosus-cd3d1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/oblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/oblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/oblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/oblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/oblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/oblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/oblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/oblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/oblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/oblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}