Cereus Species, Cacto Candelabro, Cardon Uruguayo, Hedge Cactus, Peruvian Apple, Queen of the Night 'Monstrosus'

The fruit is edible!! And it has a gorgeous hot-pink color skin with a pleasantly mild melon taste. Fruit also has tiny seeds that crunch...Read More kinda like a strawberry's seeds do. We cut them up & put in a fresh fruit salad. Beautiful! We have two of these cacti growing in front of our house here in Central FL, zone 9a. One is in the ground & a smaller one in a pot. Both are from cuttings. Seems to grow well in our humid summertime climate, & grow very fast! We also have several of the non-Mostrose version. The gorgeous giant flowers are night blooming & a sight to behold when still open in the early morning. Just fabulous!

There seems to be two flower forms here at Barmera. The first is a normal flower for the species and the other has twisted and frilled ed...Read Moreges as though also affected by the Monstrose genetics, this gives a very pretty and different flower.

This Monstrose form is of the taller growing and spread-out apex and ribs compared to the minor monstrose which only reaches 3 or 4 feet ...Read Morehigh, grows only 1/3 as fast, and has a more compact apex.

This plant is a forma of "Cereus hildmannianus subsp. uruguayanus"
Full name: "Cereus hildmannianus subsp. uruguayanus f. monstrosus"

Full name of the 'minor' form is: "Cereus hildmannianus subsp. uruguayanus f. monstrose minor"