Mexican Fence Post Cactus
Marginatocereus marginatus (DC.) Backeb.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 4.9 m
- wide
- —
Cactaceae
Formerly Cereus cupulatus, Cereus geminatus, Cereus gemmatus, Cereus incrustans, and 8 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Succulent treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Desert or dry shrublandKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- MexicoKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 3.7 m to 6.1 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- RedRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (8)
- Spanish
- Órgano chilayo, órgano, Chilayo
- Dutch
- parelbandcactus
- Portuguese
- Mandacaru-de-pérola, Tuna-de-cerca
- Japanese
- ハクウンカク, 白雲閣
- Russian
- Пахицереус окаймлённый
- Chinese
- 白雲閣
- Chinese (China)
- 白云阁
- Slovak
- hrboľovec lemovaný
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Marginatocereus marginatus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.