Cereus azureus
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Cereus azureus, Parm. (C. Seidelii, Lehm.). St. upright, tall, slender, columnar, branching from the base, in the young, fresh bluish green, later dark green with gray, glaucous covering, about 3—4 ft. high and about 1 in. diam.: ribs 5-7, rounded, enlarged at the areole: areoles about ¾- 1 ft. apart, elevated, large, abundantly woolly when young: spines 8-18, nearly alike, about ⅛-⅜in. long, stiff, slender, needle-form to bristle-like, black; the 2-4 central ones somewhat longer: fls. 8-12 in. long, obliquely attached to the st., slightly curved, white. Brazil. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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