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Pereskia aculeata

Botanic Family

Cactaceae

Author

Miller

Common Names

• Lemon Vine
• Barbados Gooseberry
• Leafy Cactus
• Ramo de Novia
• Azedinha (Brazil)
• Espinho-preto (Brazil)
• Surucucú (Brazil)
• Cipó-santo (Brazil)
• Lobolôbô (Brazil)
• Espinho-de-Santo-Antônio (Brazil)
• Ora-pro-nobis (Brazil)
• Mu qi lin (Pinyin)
• Hortensia de Bejuco
• Mahaga-kywe-yay-kya (Myanmar)
• Blood Apple

Geographical Habitats

• Tropical America
• Barbados
• Bolivia
• Goiás
• Alagoas
• Bahia
• Maranhão
• Pernambuco
• Sergipe
• Paraná
• Santa Catarina
• Espirito Santo
• Minas Gerais
• Rio de Janeiro
• São Paulo - Brazil
• Dominican Republic
• Ecuador
• Guyana
• Jamaica
• Mexico
• Panama
• N. Argentina
• Paraguay
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela
• Peru
• Cuba
• Haiti
• Leeward islands
• Virgin Islands - USA
• Antilles
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Woodland
• wet forest
• swamp
• coastal
• thorn forest
• montann e areas

Flowering Times

• Autumn
• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• Jun
• Jul
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• May
• Aug
• Sep

Woody evergreen twining shrubby liana or clambering shrub climbing by hooked spines to 30mm long, scandent cactus. Lemon-scented 50mm diameter white, yellow or pinkish flowers in terminal racemes or panicles, white tepals to 30mm long, fruit yellow to orange to 27mm diameter, spiny but mostly naked when ripe, gabrous leaves

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• E & M 1970
• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Herklots 1976
• Beckett 1990
• Huxley 1992
• RHS A-Z
• Mobot
• NYBG
• Llamas 2003
• Neotrop
• FB
• FOC
• The Plant List 2
• VOPR
• USNH
• SAFIO