Pilosocereus millspaughii, commonly called the Key Largo tree cactus, is a species of flowering plant in the family Cactaceae, native to The Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti, and the Turks and Caicos Islands. It was also native to Florida, but is now locally extinct there due to sea level rise. It was first described by Nathaniel Lord Britton in 1909 as Cephalocereus millspaughii.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Greater Antillean Tree Cactus 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 polygonus
- Pilosocereus jamaicensis
- Pilosocereus curtisii
- Pilosocereus armatus
- Pilosocereus lanuginosus
- Pilosocereus robinii
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Caryophyllales
- Family
- Cactaceae
- Genus
- Pilosocereus
- Species
- Pilosocereus millspaughii
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