Apple Cactus
Cereus repandus (L.) Mill.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 10 m
- wide
- —
Cactaceae
Formerly Acanthocereus horribarbis, Cactus peruvianus, Cactus repandus, Cephalocereus atroviridis, and 20 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Succulent treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- S. Caribbean, Venezuela to ColombiaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Plants For A Future, one source
- Height
- 10 mRead from Wikipedia and Plants For A Future, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from Plants For A Future, one source
- Flowers
- CreamRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -6.7 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from Plants For A Future, one source
Not known yet: spread, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (3)
- Chinese
- 六角柱, 秘鲁天轮柱
- Spanish
- Cadushi
- Papiamento
- kadushi
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants For A Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Cereus repandus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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