Paul Hoxey (right) and Job Rosales with one of the clumps of
Haageocereus.
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Haageocereus tenuis
Date: 2001 December 15 Location: Lima, Peru North of the city of Lima, not far from the Panamerican Highway, Haageocereus tenuis grows in a very restricted area, threatened by development of the land for chicken farms, or irrigation for sugar-cane cultivation. There is an article on this and another Haageocereus species by the Peruvian cactus expert, Carlos Ostolaza, in the British Cactus & Succulent Journal, Vol. 18, No. 3 (September 2000). |
The flowers are nocturnal, lasting a single night, and so have not often been seen.
We took this short segment of stem along with us. One of the flowers
opened at night a day later, but had closed again well before morning despite
being kept in the dark.
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