''Echinopsis subdenudata'' (commonly called domino cactus, night blooming hedgehog, Easter lily cactus) is a species of
cactus
A cactus (, or less commonly, cactus) is a member of the plant family Cactaceae, a family comprising about 127 genera with some 1750 known species of the order Caryophyllales. The word ''cactus'' derives, through Latin, from the Ancient Greek ...
. It has a globular shape, few spines, with large, white flowers attached to long, green tubes. It occurs in Bolivia, at altitudes of 600–1800 metres. Under its synonym ''Echinopsis ancistrophora'' it has gained the
Royal Horticultural Society
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Award of Garden Merit
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History
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Gallery
File:Echinopsis subdenudata203.jpg, White flower
File:Kaktus002.jpg, Long tube
File:Echinopsis subdenudata 3.jpg, Multiple flowers
File:Echinopsis subdenudata in Washington D.C.jpg, In botanical garden
See also
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Night-blooming cereus
Night-blooming cereus is the common name referring to a large number of flowering ceroid cacti that bloom at night. The flowers are short lived, and some of these species, such as ''Selenicereus grandiflorus'', bloom only once a year, for a s ...
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Hedgehog cactus
Literature
* Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 28: 71 1956.
* Anales Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires ser. 3, 4: 492. 1905
References
subdenudata
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