5421.000 Pereskia Mill.

Bailey, L.H. (1949) Manual of Cultivated Plants Revised edition. Macmillan, New York.

Description of the genus

Shrub or liane (in ours), not typically cactus-like in appearance. Spines neither sheathed nor barbed, in large clusters on the old wood, in curved pairs on younger branches; glochids 0. Stems leafy and branched. Leaves alternate, fleshy, broad and flat. Flowers stalked, showy (in ours) in corymbs or panicles. Fruit yellow. Seeds black.

Derivation of name: Named after Nicolas Claude Fabry de Peirese (1580 - 1637)

Worldwide: 16 species in tropical America (Caribbean and SE tropical S America)

Pereskia aculeata

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Other sources of information about Pereskia:

Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Pereskia page
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Pereskia
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Pereskia
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Pereskia
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Pereskia
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Pereskia

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings, 2002-13

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. & Ballings, P. (2013). Flora of Zimbabwe: Genus page: Pereskia.
http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1714, retrieved 23 May 2013

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