PACHYCEREUS

Autor: (Berger) Britton & Rose • ETYMOLOGY “Thick Cereus “, referring to the massive size of the columnar stems in this genus. • DESCRIPTION A genus of treelike, massive columnar plants, often strongly branched (P. weberi), ribs 7-17, sometimes bearing a pseudocephalium. Areoles rounded to elliptic, felted, usually connected by a interareolar groove in the reproductive…