Pilosocereus jamaicensis is a species of flowering plant in the cactus family Cactaceae, native to the Cayman Islands and Jamaica. It was first described in 2019. It has also been treated as a subspecies of Pilosocereus polygonus, P. polygonus subsp. jamaicensis.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Pilosocereus jamaicensis being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Pilosocereus millspaughii
- Pilosocereus polygonus
- Pilosocereus robinii
- Pilosocereus curtisii
- Pilosocereus lanuginosus
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Caryophyllales
- Family
- Cactaceae
- Genus
- Pilosocereus
- Species
- Pilosocereus jamaicensis
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