''Harrisia martinii'', commonly called the Martin applecactus, is a species of night-blooming, rope-like
cacti
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 ...
native to
South America.
With large showy flowers that attract the
hawk moth, it is considered by some a useful landscape plant in areas that do not freeze.
[Soule, J.A. 2012. Butterfly Gardening in Southern Arizona. Tierra del Soule Press, Tucson, AZ]
''Harrisia martinii'' is considered an exotic
invasive
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*Invasive (medical) procedure
*Invasive species
*Invasive observation, especially in reference to surveillance
*Invasively progressive spread of disease from one organ in the body to another, especially in reference to cancer ...
in
Australia
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,
,
[ AGRIS i]
ZA2001000773
CABI ISCbr>19992302942
and the U.S. state of Hawaii.
The plant is spiny with edible red globular fruit.
References
martinii
Cacti of South America
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