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Pereskia grandiflora
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Family:
CACTACEAE
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Citation: Pereskia grandiflora Pfeiff., Enum. Diagn. Cact. 177. 1837.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Kattaramullu
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Description:
Large shrubs, very spiny; areoles to 12 mm diam. on basal portion of stem. Leaves alternate, elliptic-oblong, 6-30 × 3-9 cm, 0.5 mm thick. Spines all similar, 1-6 per areole, straight, acicular, 1-6.5 cm. Flowers1.5-3.2 × 3-7 cm; tepals epigynous; scales and areoles in distal 1/2 of receptacles; lateral pedicels 1-3 cm; terminal flower without pedicel; perianth pink. Fruits reddish green to yellowish green, pyriform or tur-binate, often nearly as broad as long, 5-10 × 3-7 cm, often proliferating; seeds obovoid-ellipsoid, glossy.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
July-September
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District(s):
Thrissur, Alappuzha, Kollam, Thiruvananthapuram
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Grown as live fence and also, as garden plant
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Distribution:
Native of West Indies
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
Pink
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
Yes
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Garden:
Yes
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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